Influence of soil properties on archaeal diversity and distribution in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

• Published in: FEMS Microbiology Ecology
• Main Authors: Richter, Ingrid, Herbold, Craig W., Lee, Charles Kai-Wu, McDonald, Ian R., Barrett, John E., Cary, S. Craig
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: John Wiley & Sons Ltd 2014
• Subjects: Antarctic soils; Archaea; Euryarchaeota; Thaumarchaeota; pyrosequencing; Antarctic; Garwood; McMurdo Dry Valleys; Miers; Miers Valley; Victoria Land; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/8933; https://doi.org/10.1111/1574-6941.12322

Archaea are the least understood members of the microbial community in Antarctic mineral soils. Although their occurrence in Antarctic coastal soils has been previously documented, little is known about their distribution in soils across the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Victoria Land. In this study, termina...