Browsing by Author "Tuffin, Marla I."
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Abiotic factors influence microbial diversity in permanently cold soil horizons of a maritime-associated Antarctic Dry Valley
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2012)The McMurdo Dry Valleys collectively comprise the most extensive ice-free region in Antarctica and are considered one of the coldest arid environments on Earth. In low-altitude maritime-associated valleys, mineral soil ... -
Distribution and abiotic influences on hypolithic microbial communities in an Antarctic Dry Valley
(Springer, 2010)The Miers Valley within the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica supports abundant quartz and marble substrates for hypolithons—microbial colonists on the underside of these translucent rocks. Three physically distinct ... -
Genome sequence of temperate bacteriophage Psymv2 from Antarctic dry valley soil isolate Psychrobacter sp. MV2
(Springer, 2012)A temperate phage, Psymv2, was isolated from an Antarctic soil bacterium, Psychrobacter sp. MV2. The morphology of Psymv2 was typical of the Siphoviridae, with an isometric head and non-contractile tail. The Psymv2 genome ... -
High-level diversity of tailed phages, eukaryote-associated viruses, and virophage-like elements in the metaviromes of Antarctic soils
(American Society Microbiology, 2014-11-01)The metaviromes of two distinct Antarctic hyperarid desert soil communities have been characterized. Hypolithic communities, cyanobacterium-dominated assemblages situated on the ventral surfaces of quartz pebbles embedded ... -
Hypolithic communities: important nitrogen sources in Antarctic desert soils
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)Hypolithic microbial communities (i.e. cryptic microbial assemblages found on the undersides of translucent rocks) are major contributors of carbon input into the oligotrophic hyper-arid desert mineral soils of the Eastern ...
