Antarctic Bacteria as Astrobiological Models

• Main Authors: Abbott, Carmel, Pearce, David
• Other Authors: Seckbach, Joseph, Stan‐Lotter, Helg
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2020
• Subjects: C500 Microbiology; Antarctic; Jupiter; Saturn; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/51186/; https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119593096.ch6; https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/51186/1/EXAM%20Chapter%20-%20Antarctic%20Microbes%20as%20Astrobiological%20Models.%20Final%20Draft.pdf

Antarctica contains many different types of habitat that would traditionally be considered harsh from a human perspective; it can be extremely cold, have low levels of liquid water, low humidity, low nutrient availability, high levels of salinity and high levels of non-ionizing radiation. Yet a wide...