Article
Highly heterogeneous soil bacterial communities around Terra Nova Bay of Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Kim Mincheol, Cho Ahnna, Lim Hyoun Soo, Hong Soon Gyu, Kim Ji Hee, Lee Joohan, Choi Taejin, Ahn Tae Seok, Kim Ok-Sun
Abstract excerpt
Given the diminished role of biotic interactions in soils of continental Antarctica, abiotic factors are believed to play a dominant role in structuring of microbial communities. However, many ice-free regions remain unexplored, and it is unclear which environmental gradients are primarily responsible for the variations among bacterial communities. In this study, we investigated the soil bacterial community...
Topics
- Antarctic Regions
- Bacteria
- Biodiversity
- DNA, Bacterial
- Genetic Variation
- Phylogeny
- RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
- Seawater
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Soil
- Soil Microbiology
