Comparative Metagenomic Analysis Reveals Mechanisms for Stress Response in Hypoliths from Extreme Hyperarid Deserts

Metagenomic analysis provides insights into functional capacity in a hyperarid desert soil niche community

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Climate change and physical disturbance cause similar community shifts in biological soil crusts

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Hypolithic and soil microbial community assembly along an aridity gradient in the Namib Desert

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Evidence of species recruitment and development of hot desert hypolithic communities

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Targeted and shotgun metagenomic approaches provide different descriptions of dryland soil microbial communities in a manipulated field study

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Identifying biologically relevant differences between metagenomic communities

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A Novel OxyR Sensor and Regulator of Hydrogen Peroxide Stress with One Cysteine Residue in Deinococcus radiodurans

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