Freshwater lakes occur through much of Antarctica and are characterized by short food
chains dominated by microbes. Comparatively few studies have been made of continental …

Nutrient enrichment is known to increase bacterioplankton population density in a variety of
Antarctic freshwater lakes. However, relatively little is known about the associated changes …

A polyphasic approach that included PCR-dependent and PCR-independent molecular
techniques was applied to analyze the prokaryotic community in surface waters of shallow …

For the first time, the cyanobacterial diversity from microbial mats in lakes of Eastern
Antarctica was investigated using microscopic and molecular approaches. The present …

A bstract Research of the microbial ecology of McMurdo Dry Valley lakes has concentrated
primarily on phototrophs; relatively little is known about the heterotrophic bacterioplankton …

Water bodies that contain liquid water for at least part of the year are a surprisingly common
feature of the Antarctic landscape. While these water bodies are generically termed lakes …

The Antarctic habitats are some of the driest and coldest ecosystems on the Earth. Earlier
there was a general acceptance that polar deserts harbored little life (Priscu, 1999). But …

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

As a result of the recent application of DNA based technology to the investigation of maritime
Antarctic freshwater lakes, patterns have begun to emerge in the bacterioplankton …

A bstract The phylogenetic diversity of bacteria and cyanobacteria colonizing sediment
particles in the permanent ice cover of an Antarctic lake was characterized by analyses of …