Microbial Nitrogen Cycling in Antarctic Soils

The distribution and relative ecological roles of autotrophic and heterotrophic diazotrophs in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

(2020) Kathryn J Coyne et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Differential Colonization and Succession of Microbial Communities in Rock and Soil Substrates on a Maritime Antarctic Glacier Forefield

(2020) Isaac Garrido-Benavent et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Biological nitrogen fixation by alternative nitrogenases in terrestrial ecosystems: a review

(2020) J. P. Bellenger et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Lean and keen: Microbial activity in soils from the Maritime Antarctic

(2020) David W. Hopkins et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

Increased temperatures alter viable microbial biomass, ammonia oxidizing bacteria and extracellular enzymatic activities in Antarctic soils

(2020) Sebastian Barnard et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Abiotic factors influence patterns of bacterial diversity and community composition in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica

(2020) Eric M Bottos et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Specific adaptations are selected in opposite sun exposed Antarctic cryptoendolithic communities as revealed by untargeted metabolomics

(2020) Claudia Coleine et al.   PLoS One

Understanding the Response of Nitrifying Communities to Disturbance in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

(2020) Maria Monteiro et al.   Microorganisms

Soil bacterial diversity is positively associated with air temperature in the maritime Antarctic

(2019) Paul G. Dennis et al.   Scientific Reports

Nitrogen Inputs by Marine Vertebrates Drive Abundance and Richness in Antarctic Terrestrial Ecosystems

(2019) Stef Bokhorst et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Bacterial Community Composition and Diversity Respond to Nutrient Amendment but Not Warming in a Maritime Antarctic Soil

(2019) Kevin K. Newsham et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

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

(2019) Thomas D. Niederberger et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

A Review on Viral Metagenomics in Extreme Environments

(2019) Sonia Dávila-Ramos et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Dissolved organic matter, nutrients, and bacteria in Antarctic soil core from Schirmacher Oasis

(2018) Viia Lepane et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Prokaryotic assemblages within permafrost active layer at Edmonson Point (Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica)

(2018) Maria Papale et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil biological responses to C, N and P fertilization in a polar desert of Antarctica

(2018) Becky A. Ball et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Nutrient abundance and variability from soils in the coast of king George Island

(2018) Andrzej tachacz et al.   Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition

Atmospheric trace gases support primary production in Antarctic desert surface soil

(2017) Mukan Ji et al.   NATURE

Global Diversity of Desert Hypolithic Cyanobacteria

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

Environmental drivers of viral community composition in Antarctic soils identified by viromics

(2017) Evelien M. Adriaenssens et al.   Microbiome

Antarctic biogeography revisited: updating the Antarctic Conservation Biogeographic Regions

(2016) Aleks Terauds et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Contribution of ammonia oxidation to chemoautotrophy in Antarctic coastal waters

(2016) Bradley B Tolar et al.   ISME Journal

Genomics of variation in nitrogen fixation activity in a population of the thermophilic cyanobacterium Mastigocladus laminosus

(2016) Patrick R Hutchins et al.   ISME Journal

Effects of penguin guano and moisture on nitrogen biological fixation in maritime Antarctic soils

(2016) Cecilia A. Pérez et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

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

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

Taxonomic and Functional Diversity of Soil and Hypolithic Microbial Communities in Miers Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

(2016) Sean T. S. Wei et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

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

Ecology and biogeochemistry of cyanobacteria in soils, permafrost, aquatic and cryptic polar habitats

(2015) Thulani P. Makhalanyane et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Geological connectivity drives microbial community structure and connectivity in polar, terrestrial ecosystems

(2015) Belinda C. Ferrari et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Genetic signatures indicate widespread antibiotic resistance and phage infection in microbial communities of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, East Antarctica

(2015) Sean T. S. Wei et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Biogeochemical responses to nutrient, moisture and temperature manipulations of soil from Signy Island, South Orkney Islands in the Maritime Antarctic

(2014) Sun Benhua et al.   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

Soil Microbial Responses to Increased Moisture and Organic Resources along a Salinity Gradient in a Polar Desert

(2014) David J. Van Horn et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

High-Level Diversity of Tailed Phages, Eukaryote-Associated Viruses, and Virophage-Like Elements in the Metaviromes of Antarctic Soils

(2014) Olivier Zablocki et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Characterization of growing bacterial populations in McMurdo Dry Valley soils through stable isotope probing with18O-water

(2014) Egbert Schwartz et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Influence of soil properties on archaeal diversity and distribution in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

(2014) Ingrid Richter et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Archaeal diversity in permafrost deposits of Bunger Hills Oasis and King George Island (Antarctica) according to the 16S rRNA gene sequencing

(2014) E. S. Karaevskaya et al.   MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial biomass and respiration responses to nitrogen fertilization in a polar desert

(2014) Becky A. Ball et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Heterocytous cyanobacteria of the Ulu Peninsula, James Ross Island, Antarctica

(2014) Jiří Komárek et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Microbial functional genes involved in nitrogen fixation, nitrification and denitrification in forest ecosystems

(2014) David J. Levy-Booth et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbial ecology and biogeochemistry of continental Antarctic soils

(2014) Don A. Cowan et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The ecological dichotomy of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria in the hyper-arid soils of the Antarctic Dry Valleys

(2014) Catarina M. Magalhães et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Nitrogenase: A Draft Mechanism

(2013) Brian M. Hoffman et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Short-Term Effect of Elevated Temperature on the Abundance and Diversity of Bacterial and Archaeal amoA Genes in Antarctic Soils

(2013) Jiwon Han   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Functional ecology of an Antarctic Dry Valley

(2013) Y. Chan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Microbial responses to carbon and nitrogen supplementation in an Antarctic dry valley soil

(2012) P.G. Dennis et al.   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

The evolution of nitrogen fixation in cyanobacteria

(2012) Natasha Latysheva et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Distribution of nitrogen fixation and nitrogenase-like sequences amongst microbial genomes

(2012) Patricia C Dos Santos et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Hypolithic microbial communities: between a rock and a hard place

(2012) Yuki Chan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2012) Thomas D. Niederberger et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Psychrophilic yeasts from worldwide glacial habitats: diversity, adaptation strategies and biotechnological potential

(2012) Pietro Buzzini et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

At Limits of Life: Multidisciplinary Insights Reveal Environmental Constraints on Biotic Diversity in Continental Antarctica

(2012) Catarina Magalhães et al.   PLoS One

Soil microbial carbon and nitrogen transformations at a glacial foreland on Anvers Island, Antarctic Peninsula

(2012) Sarah L. Strauss et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Warming constrains bacterial community responses to nutrient inputs in a southern, but not northern, maritime Antarctic soil

(2012) Paul G. Dennis et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Evidence of species recruitment and development of hot desert hypolithic communities

(2012) Thulani P. Makhalanyane et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Ecological metabolomics: overview of current developments and future challenges

(2011) Jordi Sardans et al.   CHEMOECOLOGY

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

(2011) Charles K Lee et al.   ISME Journal

Low-diversity fungal assemblage in an Antarctic Dry Valleys soil

(2011) Subramanya Rao et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Change in gene abundance in the nitrogen biogeochemical cycle with temperature and nitrogen addition in Antarctic soils

(2011) Jaejoon Jung et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Resource Limitations on Soil Microbial Activity in an Antarctic Dry Valley

(2011) A. D. Sparrow et al.   SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL

Hypolithic communities: important nitrogen sources in Antarctic desert soils

(2011) D. A. Cowan et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

The functional potential of high Arctic permafrost revealed by metagenomic sequencing, qPCR and microarray analyses

(2010) Etienne Yergeau et al.   ISME Journal

On the rocks: the microbiology of Antarctic Dry Valley soils

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

Are low temperature habitats hot spots of microbial evolution driven by viruses?

(2010) Alexandre M. Anesio et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Mechanism of Mo-Dependent Nitrogenase

(2009) Lance C. Seefeldt et al.   Annual Review of Biochemistry

Nutrient compositions and potential greenhouse gas production in penguin guano, ornithogenic soils and seal colony soils in coastal Antarctica

(2009) Renbin Zhu et al.   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

Temporal variability in the abundance of ammonia- oxidizing bacteria vs. archaea in sandy sediments of the Douro River estuary, Portugal

(2009) CM Magalhães et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Crenarchaeotaaffiliated with group 1.1b are prevalent in coastal mineral soils of the Ross Sea region of Antarctica

(2009) J. Ayton et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Environmental metabolomics: a critical review and future perspectives

(2009) Jacob G. Bundy et al.   Metabolomics

The cycling and redox state of nitrogen in the Archaean ocean

(2009) Linda V. Godfrey et al.   Nature Geoscience

Highly specialized microbial diversity in hyper-arid polar desert

(2009) S. B. Pointing et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Persistent effects of a discrete warming event on a polar desert ecosystem

(2008) J. E. BARRETT et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Sources of edaphic cyanobacterial diversity in the Dry Valleys of Eastern Antarctica

(2008) Susanna A Wood et al.   ISME Journal

Electrons, life and the evolution of Earth's oxygen cycle

(2008) P. G Falkowski et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A moderately thermophilic ammonia-oxidizing crenarchaeote from a hot spring

(2008) R. Hatzenpichler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Enzymatic activities and microbial communities in an Antarctic dry valley soil: Responses to C and N supplementation

(2008) D.W. Hopkins et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY