Increasing interest in the ecological roles, conservation and biotechnological potential of
Antarctic microbiota has focused attention on their biodiversity and evolutionary origins …

Recent advances in knowledge of patterns of biogeography in terrestrial eukaryotic
organisms have led to a fundamental paradigm shift in understanding of the controls and …

Microorganisms are fundamental to the functioning of Antarctic ecosystems. Although
microbial biomass can be immense in Southern Ocean blooms and freshwater …

Prokaryotes perform key functions in Antarctic ecosystems, and knowledge of the taxonomy
of Antarctic prokaryotes is a prerequisite for the transfer of information between fields of …

Recent advances in molecular biology techniques have shown the presence of diverse
microbial communities and endemic species in Antarctica. Endemic microbes may be a …

▪ Abstract The Antarctic continent harbors a range of specialized and sometimes highly
localized microbial biotopes. These include biotopes associated with desiccated mineral …

Understanding the enormous diversity of microbes, their multiple roles in the functioning of
ecosystems, and their response to large-scale environmental and climatic changes, are at …

Marine bacterioplanktons are thought to play a vital role in Southern Ocean ecology and
ecosystem function, as they do in other ocean systems. However, our understanding of …

In contrast to the rather limited diversity of plants and animals to be found in the Antarctic, the
microbial diversity of this continent has been shown to be “surprisingly” diverse. Apparently …

Recent analyses of Antarctic terrestrial biodiversity data, in combination with molecular
biological studies, have created a new paradigm that long-term persistence and regional …