Living on a (Pr)Air; Characterising atmospheric chemosynthesis in bacteria and cold desert microbiomes

• Main Author: Ray, Angelique
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: UNSW, Sydney 2022
• Subjects: Microbial ecology; Primary production; Atmospheric gases; Trace gas oxidation; Atmospheric chemosynthesis; Cold deserts; Metagenomics; Transcriptomics; Bacterial culture; qPCR; anzsrc-for: 31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; anzsrc-for: 41 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Adams Flat; Antarctic; Arctic; Calvin; Robinson Ridge; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/100642; https://doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/24349

Cold desert soils are one of the most hostile environments on Earth, notoriously scarce in liquid water and nutrients, and exposed to highly variable levels of sunlight. Whilst higher taxa are frequently out selected by the harsh conditions, microorganisms have adapted a breath of unique strategies...