ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2007
The biodiversity and ecology of Antarctic lakes: models for evolution.
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- Green algae (Viridiplantae) in sediments from three lakes on Vega Island, Antarctica, assessed using DNA metabarcoding.Molecular biology reports · 2022Article
- Diversity and Effect of Increasing Temperature on the Activity of Methanotrophs in Sediments of Fildes Peninsula Freshwater Lakes, King George Island, Antarctica.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Antarctica as a reservoir of planetary analogue environments.Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions · 2021Review
- Diversity of fungal DNA in lake sediments on Vega Island, north-east Antarctic Peninsula assessed using DNA metabarcoding.Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions · 2021Article
- Energetic and Environmental Constraints on the Community Structure of Benthic Microbial Mats in Lake Fryxell, Antarctica.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2020Article
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- Critical Assessment of Analytical Techniques in the Search for Biomarkers on Mars: A Mummified Microbial Mat from Antarctica as a Best-Case Scenario.Astrobiology · 2017Article
- Using Captain Scott's Discovery specimens to unlock the past: has Antarctic cyanobacterial diversity changed over the last 100 years?Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Microbial Communities and Their Predicted Metabolic Functions in Growth Laminae of a Unique Large Conical Mat from Lake Untersee, East Antarctica.Frontiers in microbiology · 2017Article
- Identity, ecology and ecophysiology of planktic green algae dominating in ice-covered lakes on James Ross Island (northeastern Antarctic Peninsula).Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions · 2017Article
- Ultrastructural and Single-Cell-Level Characterization Reveals Metabolic Versatility in a Microbial Eukaryote Community from an Ice-Covered Antarctic Lake.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2016Article
- Ecosystem function decays by fungal outbreaks in Antarctic microbial mats.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- The changing form of Antarctic biodiversity.Nature · 2015Review
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Abstract
Antarctic lakes are characterised by simplified, truncated food webs. The lakes range from freshwater to hypersaline with a continuum of physical and chemical conditions that offer a natural laboratory in which to study evolution. Molecular studies on Antarctic lake communities are still in their infancy, but there is clear evidence from some taxonomic groups, for example the Cyanobacteria, that there is endemicity. Moreover, many of the bacteria have considerable potential as sources of novel biochemicals such as low temperature enzymes and anti-freeze proteins. Among the eukaryotic organisms survival strategies have evolved, among which dependence on mixotrophy in phytoflagellates and some ciliates is common. There is also some evidence of evolution of new species of flagellate in the marine derived saline lakes of the Vestfold Hills. Recent work on viruses in polar lakes demonstrates high abundance and high rates of infection, implying that they may play an important role in genetic exchange in these extreme environments.
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