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Rapid Microbial Dynamics in Response to an Induced Wetting Event in Antarctic Dry Valley Soils

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Partitioning the Effects of Eco-Evolutionary Feedbacks on Community Stability

(2018) Swati Patel et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

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(2018) Stefanie Maier et al.   ISME Journal

Marked Succession of Cyanobacterial Communities Following Glacier Retreat in the High Arctic

(2018) Igor S. Pessi et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Evaluation of Primers Targeting the Diazotroph Functional Gene and Development of NifMAP – A Bioinformatics Pipeline for Analyzing nifH Amplicon Data

(2018) Roey Angel et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Local and Regional Scale Heterogeneity Drive Bacterial Community Diversity and Composition in a Polar Desert

(2018) Kelli L. Feeser et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Niche specialization of bacteria in permanently ice-covered lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

(2017) Miye Kwon et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Substrates of Peltigera Lichens as a Potential Source of Cyanobionts

(2017) Catalina Zúñiga et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Microbial formation of labile organic carbon in Antarctic glacial environments

(2017) H. J. Smith et al.   Nature Geoscience

Diversity and Structure of Diazotrophic Communities in Mangrove Rhizosphere, Revealed by High-Throughput Sequencing

(2017) Yanying Zhang et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Global Diversity of Desert Hypolithic Cyanobacteria

(2017) Donnabella C. Lacap-Bugler et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Primary productivity as a control over soil microbial diversity along environmental gradients in a polar desert ecosystem

(2017) Kevin M. Geyer et al.   PeerJ

Decadal ecosystem response to an anomalous melt season in a polar desert in Antarctica

(2017) Michael N. Gooseff et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Microbial diversity and functional capacity in polar soils

(2016) Thulani Peter Makhalanyane et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

MEGA7: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 7.0 for Bigger Datasets

(2016) Sudhir Kumar et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Antarctic microbial communities are functionally redundant, adapted and resistant to short term temperature perturbations

(2016) S.Z. de Scally et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Contribution of mono and polysaccharides to heterotrophic N2 fixation at the eastern Mediterranean coastline

(2016) E. Rahav et al.   Scientific Reports

Microbial Community Responses to Increased Water and Organic Matter in the Arid Soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

(2016) Heather N. Buelow et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The Diversity and Co-occurrence Patterns of N2-Fixing Communities in a CO2-Enriched Grassland Ecosystem

(2015) Qichao Tu et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Stronger warming effects on microbial abundances in colder regions

(2015) Ji Chen et al.   Scientific Reports

Carbon-Fixation Rates and Associated Microbial Communities Residing in Arid and Ephemerally Wet Antarctic Dry Valley Soils

(2015) Thomas D. Niederberger et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial community composition of transiently wetted Antarctic Dry Valley soils

(2015) Thomas D. Niederberger et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Mechanism of Nitrogen Fixation by Nitrogenase: The Next Stage

(2014) Brian M. Hoffman et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Bacterial community composition of divergent soil habitats in a polar desert

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Biological nitrogen fixation: rates, patterns and ecological controls in terrestrial ecosystems

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Bacteria and diatom co-occurrence patterns in microbial mats from polar desert streams

(2012) Lee F. Stanish et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Lichen myco- and photobiont diversity and their relationships at the edge of life (McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica)

(2012) Sergio Pérez-Ortega et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Diverse and highly active diazotrophic assemblages inhabit ephemerally wetted soils of the Antarctic Dry Valleys

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Contribution of cryptogamic covers to the global cycles of carbon and nitrogen

(2012) Wolfgang Elbert et al.   Nature Geoscience

Rapid succession of Biological Soil Crusts after experimental disturbance in the Succulent Karoo, South Africa

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Massively parallel rRNA gene sequencing exacerbates the potential for biased community diversity comparisons due to variable library sizes

(2011) Thomas M. Gihring et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Inter-Valley Soil Comparative Survey: the ecology of Dry Valley edaphic microbial communities

(2011) Charles K Lee et al.   ISME Journal

An improved Greengenes taxonomy with explicit ranks for ecological and evolutionary analyses of bacteria and archaea

(2011) Daniel McDonald et al.   ISME Journal

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(2011) Jill A. Sohm et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

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Diverse hypolithic refuge communities in the McMurdo Dry Valleys

(2010) Don A. Cowan et al.   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

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(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

Extracellular polysaccharides from cyanobacterial soil crusts: A review of their role in dryland soil processes

(2010) D.M. Mager et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

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On the rocks: the microbiology of Antarctic Dry Valley soils

(2010) S. Craig Cary et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

NifH gene diversity and expression in a microbial mat community on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica

(2009) Anne D. Jungblut et al.   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Nitrogen fixation varies spatially and seasonally in linked stream-lake ecosystems

(2009) Amy M. Marcarelli et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Vertical distribution of microbial communities under the canopy of two legume bushes in the Tehuacán Desert, Mexico

(2008) Salvador Rodríguez-Zaragoza et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

High Diversity of Diazotrophs in the Forefield of a Receding Alpine Glacier

(2008) Laurence Duc et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

The earliest stages of ecosystem succession in high-elevation (5000 metres above sea level), recently deglaciated soils

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