Psychrophilic Extremophiles from Antarctica: Biodiversity and Biotechnological Potential
Recently there has been a rapid accumulation of knowledge of microbial life in cold and frozen ecosystems. This understanding has revealed the extensive diversity of psychrophilic prokaryotes. Cultivation-based and molecular-based surveys have been performed in Antarctic habitats ranging from glacia...
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ftunivtasecite:oai:ecite.utas.edu.au:33946 2023-05-15T14:03:54+02:00 Psychrophilic Extremophiles from Antarctica: Biodiversity and Biotechnological Potential Bowman, JP Abell, GC Mancuso Nichols, CA 2005 https://doi.org/10.4217/OPR.2005.27.2.221 http://ecite.utas.edu.au/33946 en eng Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute http://dx.doi.org/10.4217/OPR.2005.27.2.221 Bowman, JP and Abell, GC and Mancuso Nichols, CA, Psychrophilic Extremophiles from Antarctica: Biodiversity and Biotechnological Potential, Ocean and Polar Research, 27, (2) pp. 221-230. ISSN 1598-141X (2005) [Refereed Article] http://ecite.utas.edu.au/33946 Biological Sciences Evolutionary Biology Phylogeny and Comparative Analysis Refereed Article PeerReviewed 2005 ftunivtasecite https://doi.org/10.4217/OPR.2005.27.2.221 2019-12-13T21:12:52Z Recently there has been a rapid accumulation of knowledge of microbial life in cold and frozen ecosystems. This understanding has revealed the extensive diversity of psychrophilic prokaryotes. Cultivation-based and molecular-based surveys have been performed in Antarctic habitats ranging from glacial ice to continental shelf sediments. Results indicate that psychrophilic taxa permeate throughout the Bacteria while they represent a more mysterious element of diversity in the Archaea owing to a notable lack of cultured strains. In certain cold climate ecosystems the diversity of psychrophilic populations reach levels comparable to the richest temperate equivalents. Within these communities must exist tremendous genetic diversity that is potentially of fundamental and of practical value. So far this genetic pool has been hardly explored. Only recently have genomic data become available for various psychrophilic prokaryotes and more is required. This owes to the fact that psychrophilic microbes possess manifold mechanisms for cold adaptations, which not only provide enhanced survival and persistence but probably also contributes to niche specialisation. These mechanisms, including cold-active and ice-active proteins, polyunsaturated lipids and exopolysaccharides also have a great interest to biotechnologists. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Polar Research eCite UTAS (University of Tasmania) Antarctic Ocean and Polar Research 27 2 221 230 |
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Recently there has been a rapid accumulation of knowledge of microbial life in cold and frozen ecosystems. This understanding has revealed the extensive diversity of psychrophilic prokaryotes. Cultivation-based and molecular-based surveys have been performed in Antarctic habitats ranging from glacial ice to continental shelf sediments. Results indicate that psychrophilic taxa permeate throughout the Bacteria while they represent a more mysterious element of diversity in the Archaea owing to a notable lack of cultured strains. In certain cold climate ecosystems the diversity of psychrophilic populations reach levels comparable to the richest temperate equivalents. Within these communities must exist tremendous genetic diversity that is potentially of fundamental and of practical value. So far this genetic pool has been hardly explored. Only recently have genomic data become available for various psychrophilic prokaryotes and more is required. This owes to the fact that psychrophilic microbes possess manifold mechanisms for cold adaptations, which not only provide enhanced survival and persistence but probably also contributes to niche specialisation. These mechanisms, including cold-active and ice-active proteins, polyunsaturated lipids and exopolysaccharides also have a great interest to biotechnologists. |
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Psychrophilic Extremophiles from Antarctica: Biodiversity and Biotechnological Potential |
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