Micro-eukaryotic diversity in hypolithons from Miers Valley, Antarctica

dc.contributor.authorGokul, Jarishma K.
dc.contributor.authorValverde, Angel
dc.contributor.authorTuffin, Marla I.
dc.contributor.authorCary, Stephen Craig
dc.contributor.authorCowan, Don A.
dc.contributor.emaildon.cowan@up.ac.zaen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-22T07:19:17Z
dc.date.available2013-04-22T07:19:17Z
dc.date.issued2013-02-22
dc.description.abstractThe discovery of extensive and complex hypolithic communities in both cold and hot deserts has raised many questions regarding their ecology, biodiversity and relevance in terms of regional productivity. However, most hypolithic research has focused on the bacterial elements of the community. This study represents the first investigation of micro-eukaryotic communities in all three hypolith types. Here we show that Antarctic hypoliths support extensive populations of novel uncharacterized bryophyta, fungi and protists and suggest that well known producer-decomposer-predator interactions may create the necessary conditions for hypolithic productivity in Antarctic deserts.en_US
dc.description.librarianam2013en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe authors gratefully acknowledge the National Research Foundation (South Africa) and Antarctica New Zealand for support of this research.en_US
dc.description.uriwww.mdpi.com/journal/biologyen_US
dc.format.extent10 p.en_US
dc.format.mediumPDFen_US
dc.identifier.citationGokul, JK, Valverde, A, Tuffin, M, Cary, SC & Cowan, DA (2013)' Micro-eukaryotic diversity in hypolithons from Miers Valley', Antarctica.Biology 5: 331-340.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2079-7737
dc.identifier.other10.3390/biology2010331
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/21347
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMDPI online quarterlyen_US
dc.rights© 2013 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution licenseen_US
dc.subjectAntarcticaen_US
dc.subjectMicro-eukaryotesen_US
dc.subjectHypolithsen_US
dc.titleMicro-eukaryotic diversity in hypolithons from Miers Valley, Antarcticaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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