Antarctic continent comprises diverse ecosystems like snow, glacier ice, sea ice, melt pools,
glacial soils, supraglacial and subglacial lakes that accommodate numerous microbial and …

This review compiles principal data on Antarctic cynobacteria published in recent decades
and focuses on the diversity, environmental adaptations, and ecotypes of these …

Clues to the evolutionary steps producing innovations in oxygenic photosynthesis may be
preserved in the genomes of organisms phylogenetically placed between non …

Lake Fryxell is a perennially ice-covered lake in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica, with a
sharp oxycline in a water column that is density stabilized by a gradient in salt concentration …

The global biogeography of microorganisms remains poorly resolved, which limits the
current understanding of microbial resilience toward environmental changes. Using high …

In this study, we report the distribution of microbial taxa and their predicted metabolic
functions observed in the top (U1), middle (U2), and inner (U3) decadal growth laminae of a …

In both natural and built environments, microbes on occasions manifest in spherical
aggregates instead of substratum‐affixed biofilms. These microbial aggregates are …

Lake Vanda is a perennially ice-covered, meromictic, endorheic lake located in the
McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, and an exceptional sentinel of climate change within the …

Microbial consortia dominate glacial meltwater streams from polar regions, including the
McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV), where they thrive under physiologically stressful conditions. In …

Cyanobacteria in polar environments face environmental challenges, including cold
temperatures and extreme light seasonality with small diurnal variation, which has …