[HTML][HTML] Advances in Antarctic research for antimicrobial discovery: a comprehensive narrative review of bacteria from Antarctic environments as potential sources of …

K Núñez-Montero, L Barrientos - Antibiotics, 2018 - mdpi.com
The recent emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has become a critical public health
problem. It is also a concern for industries, since multidrug-resistant microorganisms affect …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial nitrogen cycling in Antarctic soils

M Ortiz, J Bosch, C Coclet, J Johnson, P Lebre… - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
The Antarctic continent is widely considered to be one of the most hostile biological habitats
on Earth. Despite extreme environmental conditions, the ice-free areas of the continent …

[HTML][HTML] Biogeographic survey of soil bacterial communities across Antarctica

G Varliero, PH Lebre, B Adams, SL Chown, P Convey… - Microbiome, 2024 - Springer
Background Antarctica and its unique biodiversity are increasingly at risk from the effects of
global climate change and other human influences. A significant recent element …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial Community Abundance and Metabolism Close to the Ice-Water Interface of the Blomstrandbreen Glacier (Kongsfjorden, Svalbard): A Sampling …

M Papale, G Caruso, G Maimone, R La Ferla… - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
Polar marine environments host a complex assemblage of cold-adapted auto-and
heterotrophic microorganisms that affect water biogeochemistry and ecosystem functions …

Exogenous production of cold-active cellulase from polar Nocardiopsis sp. with increased cellulose hydrolysis efficiency

P Sivasankar, S Poongodi, K Sivakumar… - Archives of …, 2022 - Springer
The present work was designed to isolate and characterise the actinobacteria in the Polar
Front region of the Southern Ocean waters and species of Nocardiopsis and Streptomyces …

Highly differentiated soil bacterial communities in Victoria Land macro-areas (Antarctica)

M Severgnini, F Canini, C Consolandi… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Ice-free areas of Victoria Land, in Antarctica, are characterized by different terrestrial
ecosystems, that are dominated by microorganisms supporting highly adapted communities …

[HTML][HTML] The variety and inscrutability of polar environments as a resource of biotechnologically relevant molecules

C Rizzo, A Lo Giudice - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
The application of an ever-increasing number of methodological approaches and tools is
positively contributing to the development and yield of bioprospecting procedures. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial assemblages in pressurized Antarctic brine pockets (Tarn Flat, Northern Victoria Land): A hotspot of biodiversity and activity

M Papale, A Lo Giudice, A Conte, C Rizzo… - Microorganisms, 2019 - mdpi.com
Two distinct pressurized hypersaline brine pockets (named TF4 and TF5), separated by a
thin ice layer, were detected below an ice-sealed Antarctic lake. Prokaryotic (bacterial and …

Abiotic factors affecting the bacterial and fungal diversity of permafrost in a rock glacier in the Stelvio Pass (Italian Central Alps)

C Sannino, L Borruso, A Mezzasoma, D Battistel… - Applied Soil …, 2021 - Elsevier
The impact of climate change in the European Alps has been roughly twice the global
average, dramatically reducing permafrost extent and thickening of its active layer …

Prokaryotic diversity and metabolically active communities in brines from two perennially ice-covered Antarctic lakes

A Lo Giudice, A Conte, M Papale, C Rizzo, M Azzaro… - Astrobiology, 2021 - liebertpub.com
The genomic diversity of bacteria and archaea in brines (BC1, BC2, and BC3) from two
adjacent and perennially frozen Antarctic lakes (L16 and L-2) in the Boulder Clay (BC) area …