Actinobacteria and cyanobacteria diversity in terrestrial Antarctic microenvironments using culture-dependent and independent methods

• Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology
• Main Authors: Rego, Adriana, Raio, Francisco, Martins, Teresa P., Ribeiro, Hugo, Sousa, António G. G., Silva, Joana, Baptista, Mafalda S., Lee, Charles Kai-Wu, Cary, S. Craig, Ramos, Vitor, Carvalho, Maria F., Leão, Pedro N., Magalhães, Catarina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media 2019
• Subjects: Actinobacteria; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Antarctic soil; Bacteria diversity; Bacterial cultivability; Endolitic microbiota; Antarctic microenvironments; Cyanobacteria; Antarctic; Victoria Valley; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/12589; https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01018

Bacterial diversity from McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctica, the largest desert on earth, has become more easily assessed with the development of High Throughput Sequencing (HTS) techniques. However, some of the diversity remains unachievable by the power of sequencing. In this study, we combine cult...