Protection of Antarctic microbial communities – ‘out of sight, out of mind’

Some like it cold: understanding the survival strategies of psychrophiles

(2014) P. De Maayer et al.   EMBO REPORTS

Evidence of global-scale aeolian dispersal and endemism in isolated geothermal microbial communities of Antarctica

(2014) Craig W. Herbold et al.   Nature Communications

Antarctica’s Protected Areas Are Inadequate, Unrepresentative, and at Risk

(2014) Justine D. Shaw et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Pristine Antarctica: threats and protection

(2013) K.A. Hughes et al.   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

Microbial diversity and the “lower-limit” problem of biodiversity

(2013) Christophe Malaterre   BIOLOGY & PHILOSOPHY

Evidence for successional development in Antarctic hypolithic bacterial communities

(2013) Thulani P Makhalanyane et al.   ISME Journal

Local and regional influences over soil microbial metacommunities in the Transantarctic Mountains

(2013) Eric R. Sokol et al.   Ecosphere

Conservation biogeography of the Antarctic

(2012) Aleks Terauds et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Hypolithic microbial communities: between a rock and a hard place

(2012) Yuki Chan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Patterns in the distribution of soil bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequences from different regions of Antarctica

(2012) C.W. Chong et al.   GEODERMA

High-throughput bacterial genome sequencing: an embarrassment of choice, a world of opportunity

(2012) Nicholas J. Loman et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Challenges to the Future Conservation of the Antarctic

(2012) S. L. Chown et al.   SCIENCE

Untouched Antarctica: mapping a finite and diminishing environmental resource

(2011) Kevin A. Hughes et al.   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

Aeolian flux of biotic and abiotic material in Taylor Valley, Antarctica

(2011) Marie Šabacká et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Culturable Diversity of Heterotrophic Bacteria in Forlidas Pond (Pensacola Mountains) and Lundström Lake (Shackleton Range), Antarctica

(2011) Karolien Peeters et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Hypolithic microbial communities of quartz rocks from Miers Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

(2011) Nuraan Khan et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Do we need a global strategy for microbial conservation?

(2011) Gareth W. Griffith   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Non-indigenous microorganisms in the Antarctic: assessing the risks

(2011) Don A. Cowan et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Hypolithic communities: important nitrogen sources in Antarctic desert soils

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

Diverse hypolithic refuge communities in the McMurdo Dry Valleys

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

Biodiversity of air-borne microorganisms at Halley station, Antarctica

(2010) David A. Pearce et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Surgeon's garb and infection control: What's the evidence?

(2010) Daniel B. Eisen   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY

On the rocks: the microbiology of Antarctic Dry Valley soils

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

Molecular adaptations to psychrophily: the impact of ‘omic’ technologies

(2010) Ana Casanueva et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Evidence for widespread endemism among Antarctic micro-organisms

(2010) Wim Vyverman et al.   Polar Science

Microorganisms in the atmosphere over Antarctica

(2009) David A. Pearce et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Material-dependent growth of human skin bacteria on textiles investigated using challenge tests and DNA genotyping

(2009) L. Teufel et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Cryptic microbial communities in Antarctic deserts

(2009) D. A. Cowan   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Hidden levels of phylodiversity in Antarctic green algae: further evidence for the existence of glacial refugia

(2009) A. De Wever et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

High Diversity of the Viral Community from an Antarctic Lake

(2009) A. Lopez-Bueno et al.   SCIENCE

Impacts of local human activities on the Antarctic environment

(2008) T. Tin et al.   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

Antarctic terrestrial life – challenging the history of the frozen continent?

(2008) Peter Convey et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Bacteriophage in polar inland waters

(2008) Christin Säwström et al.   EXTREMOPHILES

Environmental microarray analyses of Antarctic soil microbial communities

(2008) Etienne Yergeau et al.   ISME Journal