Microbial Community Composition of the Antarctic Ecosystems: Review of the Bacteria, Fungi, and Archaea Identified through an NGS-Based Metagenomics Approach

Fungi Present in Antarctic Deep-Sea Sediments Assessed Using DNA Metabarcoding

(2021) Mayara Baptistucci Ogaki et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Pigments from Antarctic bacteria and their biotechnological applications

(2021) Tiago Rodrigues e Silva et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Microbial Community Structure Driven by a Volcanic Gradient in Glaciers of the Antarctic Archipelago South Shetland

(2021) Eva García-Lopez et al.   Microorganisms

Shift from Carbon Flow through the Microbial Loop to the Viral Shunt in Coastal Antarctic Waters during Austral Summer

(2021) Claire Evans et al.   Microorganisms

Diversity of Fungi Present in Permafrost in the South Shetland Islands, Maritime Antarctic

(2021) Thamar Holanda da Silva et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

16S rRNA gene and 18S rRNA gene diversity in microbial mat communities in meltwater ponds on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica

(2021) Eleanor E. Jackson et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Diversity, Ecological Role and Biotechnological Potential of Antarctic Marine Fungi

(2021) Stefano Varrella et al.   Journal of Fungi

Fungi in the Antarctic Cryosphere: Using DNA Metabarcoding to Reveal Fungal Diversity in Glacial Ice from the Antarctic Peninsula Region

(2021) Graciéle Cunha Alves de Menezes et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Airborne bacterial community diversity, source and function along the Antarctic Coast

(2020) Yue Cao et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

DNA metabarcoding of fungal diversity in air and snow of Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica

(2020) Luiz Henrique Rosa et al.   Scientific Reports

Spatial Variability of Antarctic Surface Snow Bacterial Communities

(2019) Lucie A. Malard et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial diversity of an Antarctic subglacial community and high‐resolution replicate sampling inform hydrological connectivity in a polar desert

(2019) Richard Campen et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Source Environments of the Microbiome in Perennially Ice-Covered Lake Untersee, Antarctica

(2019) Klemens Weisleitner et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Bacterioplankton Community Composition Along Environmental Gradients in Lakes From Byers Peninsula (Maritime Antarctica) as Determined by Next-Generation Sequencing

(2019) Antonio Picazo et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Influence of Environmental Drivers and Potential Interactions on the Distribution of Microbial Communities From Three Permanently Stratified Antarctic Lakes

(2019) Wei Li et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Biomarker Profiling of Microbial Mats in the Geothermal Band of Cerro Caliente, Deception Island (Antarctica): Life at the Edge of Heat and cold

(2019) María Ángeles Lezcano et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

The Biodiversity and Geochemistry of Cryoconite Holes in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica

(2019) Stefanie Lutz et al.   Microorganisms

Taxonomic and functional characterization of a microbial community from a volcanic englacial ecosystem in Deception Island, Antarctica

(2019) Emma Martinez-Alonso et al.   Scientific Reports

Fungal and bacterial diversity of Svalbard subglacial ice

(2019) L. Perini et al.   Scientific Reports

Spatiotemporal dynamics of marine bacterial and archaeal communities in surface waters off the northern Antarctic Peninsula

(2018) Camila N. Signori et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Scaling up: A guide to high-throughput genomic approaches for biodiversity analysis

(2018) Teresita M. Porter et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Diversity of key genes for carbon and nitrogen fixation in soils from the Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica

(2018) Guillaume Tahon et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

A Mosaic of Geothermal and Marine Features Shapes Microbial Community Structure on Deception Island Volcano, Antarctica

(2018) Amanda G. Bendia et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Climate change drives expansion of Antarctic ice-free habitat

(2017) Jasmine R. Lee et al.   NATURE

Microbial Communities and Their Predicted Metabolic Functions in Growth Laminae of a Unique Large Conical Mat from Lake Untersee, East Antarctica

(2017) Hyunmin Koo et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial Diversity of Browning Peninsula, Eastern Antarctica Revealed Using Molecular and Cultivation Methods

(2017) Sarita Pudasaini et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Global Diversity of Desert Hypolithic Cyanobacteria

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

High Prevalence of Gammaproteobacteria in the Sediments of Admiralty Bay and North Bransfield Basin, Northwestern Antarctic Peninsula

(2017) Diego C. Franco et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Biogeochemical and Microbial Variation across 5500 km of Antarctic Surface Sediment Implicates Organic Matter as a Driver of Benthic Community Structure

(2016) Deric R. Learman et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Metagenomic Analysis of Bacterial Communities of Antarctic Surface Snow

(2016) Anna Lopatina et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

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 Structure of Subglacial Lake Whillans, West Antarctica

(2016) Amanda M. Achberger et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

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

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

Temporal, regional and geochemical drivers of microbial community variation in the melt ponds of the Ross Sea region, Antarctica

(2015) Stephen D. J. Archer et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Microbial diversity at Mitchell Peninsula, Eastern Antarctica: a potential biodiversity “hotspot”

(2015) Mukan Ji et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Bacterial diversity is strongly associated with historical penguin activity in an Antarctic lake sediment profile

(2015) Renbin Zhu et al.   Scientific Reports

Abundant Atribacteria in deep marine sediment from the Adélie Basin, Antarctica

(2015) Stephanie A. Carr et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Diversity and structure of soil bacterial communities in the Fildes Region (maritime Antarctica) as revealed by 454 pyrosequencing

(2015) Neng Fei Wang et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial community composition of transiently wetted Antarctic Dry Valley soils

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

Highly Heterogeneous Soil Bacterial Communities around Terra Nova Bay of Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica

(2015) Mincheol Kim et al.   PLoS One

Characterization of Bacterial, Archaeal and Eukaryote Symbionts from Antarctic Sponges Reveals a High Diversity at a Three-Domain Level and a Particular Signature for This Ecosystem

(2015) Susana Rodríguez-Marconi et al.   PLoS One

Diversity of toxin and non-toxin containing cyanobacterial mats of meltwater ponds on the Antarctic Peninsula: a pyrosequencing approach

(2014) J. Kleinteich 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

Marine bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic diversity and community structure on the continental shelf of the western Antarctic Peninsula

(2014) CM Luria et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Diversity of bacterioplankton in coastal seawaters of Fildes Peninsula, King George Island, Antarctica

(2014) Yin-Xin Zeng et al.   ARCHIVES OF MICROBIOLOGY

Indications for algae-degrading benthic microbial communities in deep-sea sediments along the Antarctic Polar Front

(2014) S. Emil Ruff et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Characterisation of bacterioplankton communities in the meltwater ponds of Bratina Island, Victoria Land, Antarctica

(2014) Stephen D.J. Archer 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

Towards a taxonomic coherence between average nucleotide identity and 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity for species demarcation of prokaryotes

(2014) M. Kim et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial Diversity Assessment in Antarctic Terrestrial and Aquatic Microbial Mats: A Comparison between Bidirectional Pyrosequencing and Cultivation

(2014) Bjorn Tytgat et al.   PLoS One

Snow Surface Microbiome on the High Antarctic Plateau (DOME C)

(2014) Luigi Michaud et al.   PLoS One

Soil fertility is associated with fungal and bacterial richness, whereas pH is associated with community composition in polar soil microbial communities

(2014) Steven D. Siciliano et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbial diversity and community structure across environmental gradients in Bransfield Strait, Western Antarctic Peninsula

(2014) Camila N. Signori et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial ecology and biogeochemistry of continental Antarctic soils

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

Modular community structure suggests metabolic plasticity during the transition to polar night in ice-covered Antarctic lakes

(2013) Trista J Vick-Majors et al.   ISME Journal

Airborne Bacterial Populations Above Desert Soils of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

(2013) Eric M. Bottos et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Factors Controlling Soil Microbial Biomass and Bacterial Diversity and Community Composition in a Cold Desert Ecosystem: Role of Geographic Scale

(2013) David J. Van Horn et al.   PLoS One

Interactions between Snow Chemistry, Mercury Inputs and Microbial Population Dynamics in an Arctic Snowpack

(2013) Catherine Larose et al.   PLoS One

Soil bacterial community abundance and diversity in ice-free areas of Keller Peninsula, Antarctica

(2012) Luiz F.W. Roesch et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

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

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

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

A metagenomic assessment of winter and summer bacterioplankton from Antarctica Peninsula coastal surface waters

(2012) Joseph J Grzymski et al.   ISME Journal

Bacterial diversity in ornithogenic soils compared to mineral soils on King George Island, Antarctica

(2012) Ok-Sun Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Global biogeography of SAR11 marine bacteria

(2012) Mark V Brown et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

Pole-to-pole biogeography of surface and deep marine bacterial communities

(2012) J.-F. Ghiglione et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Substrate-Controlled Succession of Marine Bacterioplankton Populations Induced by a Phytoplankton Bloom

(2012) H. Teeling et al.   SCIENCE

Rapid microbial response to the presence of an ancient relic in the Antarctic Dry Valleys

(2012) Grace Tiao et al.   Nature Communications

Metagenomic Analysis of a Southern Maritime Antarctic Soil

(2012) David A. Pearce et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Metagenomic Analysis of Stress Genes in Microbial Mat Communities from Antarctica and the High Arctic

(2011) Thibault Varin et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial diversity of active layer and permafrost in an acidic wetland from the Canadian High Arctic

(2011) Roland C. Wilhelm et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Pronounced summer to winter differences and higher wintertime richness in coastal Antarctic marine bacterioplankton

(2011) J. F. Ghiglione et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

When a habitat freezes solid: microorganisms over-winter within the ice column of a coastal Antarctic lake

(2011) Christine M. Foreman et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

The impact of different soil parameters on the community structure of dominant bacteria from nine different soils located on Livingston Island, South Shetland Archipelago, Antarctica

(2011) Lars Ganzert et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Differential photoinhibition of bacterial and archaeal ammonia oxidation

(2011) Stephanie N. Merbt et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Shifts in soil microorganisms in response to warming are consistent across a range of Antarctic environments

(2011) Etienne Yergeau et al.   ISME Journal

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

(2011) Charles K Lee et al.   ISME Journal

Microbial community structure of Arctic multiyear sea ice and surface seawater by 454 sequencing of the 16S RNA gene

(2011) Jeff S Bowman et al.   ISME Journal

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

(2011) Nuraan Khan et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Potential for Chemolithoautotrophy Among Ubiquitous Bacteria Lineages in the Dark Ocean

(2011) B. K. Swan et al.   SCIENCE

High archaeal diversity in Antarctic circumpolar deep waters

(2011) Laura Alonso-Sáez et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Ancient origins determine global biogeography of hot and cold desert cyanobacteria

(2011) Justin Bahl et al.   Nature Communications

Bacterial diversity in rhizosphere soil from Antarctic vascular plants of Admiralty Bay, maritime Antarctica

(2010) Lia C R S Teixeira et al.   ISME Journal

On the rocks: the microbiology of Antarctic Dry Valley soils

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

The limnology and biology of the Dufek Massif, Transantarctic Mountains 82° South

(2010) Dominic A. Hodgson et al.   Polar Science

Bacterial diversity associated with ornithogenic soil of the Ross Sea region, AntarcticaThis article is one of a selection of papers in the Special Issue on Polar and Alpine Microbiology.

(2009) J. Aislabie et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial mat communities in response to recent changes in the physiochemical environment of the meltwater ponds on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, Antarctica

(2009) Donna L. Sutherland   POLAR BIOLOGY

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

Winter-to-summer changes in the composition and single-cell activity of near-surface Arctic prokaryotes

(2008) Laura Alonso-Sáez et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The phylogeography of Adelie penguin faecal flora

(2008) Jonathan C. Banks et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2008) Susanna A Wood et al.   ISME Journal

High diversity of cultivable heterotrophic bacteria in association with cyanobacterial water blooms

(2008) Katri A Berg et al.   ISME Journal

Genome analysis of the proteorhodopsin-containing marine bacterium Polaribacter sp. MED152 (Flavobacteria)

(2008) J. M. Gonzalez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Extracellular hydrolytic enzyme screening of culturable heterotrophic bacteria from deep-sea sediments of the Southern Okinawa Trough

(2008) Hongyue Dang et al.   WORLD JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY

Antarctic soils and soil formation in a changing environment: A review

(2007) F.C. Ugolini et al.   GEODERMA