Microbial diversity and gene mining in Antarctic Dry Valley mineral soils

• Main Author: Smith, Jacques J.
• Other Authors: Cowan, Don A., Dept. of Biotechnology, Faculty of Science
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of the Western Cape 2006
• Subjects: Soil microbiology - Antarctica; Microbial ecology - Antarctica; Antarctic; Ross Dependency; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11394/1871

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD Soil communities are regarded as among the most complex and diverse assemblages of microorganisms with estimated bacterial numbers in the order of 109-1 cells.g. Studies on extreme soils however, have reported lower cell densities, supporting the perception that the so-call...