ArticlePloS one2014
Snow surface microbiome on the High Antarctic Plateau (DOME C).
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- Atmospheric Microbial Transport to Antarctica and Its Ecological Implications: A Systematic Review.Environmental microbiology · 2026Pooled it
- Disentangling bacterial diversity and biogeography in snow-covered regions.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2026Article
- Interannual Bacterial Diversity Variability in Antarctic Snow/Ice Samples in the Vicinity of Concordia Station.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Microbial biogeography along a 2578 km transect on the East Antarctic Plateau.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Resurrected microorganisms: a plethora of resting bacteria underway for human interaction.AMB Express · 2024Article
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- Scientific novelty beyond the experiment.Microbial biotechnology · 2023Article
- Snow Surface Microbial Diversity at the Detection Limit within the Vicinity of the Concordia Station, Antarctica.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Microbial Community Composition of the Antarctic Ecosystems: Review of the Bacteria, Fungi, and Archaea Identified through an NGS-Based Metagenomics Approach.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Host-Associated Phages Disperse across the Extraterrestrial Analogue Antarctica.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- Space omics research in Europe: Contributions, geographical distribution and ESA member state funding schemes.iScience · 2022Review
- Isolation and characterization of fast-growing green snow bacteria from coastal East Antarctica.MicrobiologyOpen · 2021Article
- Out From the Shadows - Resolution of the Taxonomy of the FamilyFrontiers in microbiology · 2020Article
- Microbial Assemblages in Pressurized Antarctic Brine Pockets (Tarn Flat, Northern Victoria Land): A Hotspot of Biodiversity and Activity.Microorganisms · 2019Article
- Wooden owl that redefines Earth's biosphere may yet catapult a fungus into space.Environmental microbiology · 2019Article
- Sources and selection of snow-specific microbial communities in a Greenlandic sea ice snow cover.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Spatial Variability of Antarctic Surface Snow Bacterial Communities.Frontiers in microbiology · 2019Article
- Microbial metabolism directly affects trace gases in (sub) polar snowpacks.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2017Article
- Metagenomic Analysis of Bacterial Communities of Antarctic Surface Snow.Frontiers in microbiology · 2016Article
- Microbial ecology of the cryosphere: sea ice and glacial habitats.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2015Review
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Abstract
The cryosphere is an integral part of the global climate system and one of the major habitable ecosystems of Earth's biosphere. These permanently frozen environments harbor diverse, viable and metabolically active microbial populations that represent almost all the major phylogenetic groups. In this study, we investigated the microbial diversity in the surface snow surrounding the Concordia Research Station on the High Antarctic Plateau through a polyphasic approach, including direct prokaryotic quantification by flow cytometry and catalyzed reporter deposition fluorescence in situ hybridization (CARD-FISH), and phylogenetic identification by 16S RNA gene clone library sequencing and 454 16S amplicon pyrosequencing. Although the microbial abundance was low (<10(3) cells/ml of snowmelt), concordant results were obtained with the different techniques. The microbial community was mainly composed of members of the Alpha-proteobacteria class (e.g. Kiloniellaceae and Rhodobacteraceae), which is one of the most well-represented bacterial groups in marine habitats, Bacteroidetes (e.g. Cryomorphaceae and Flavobacteriaceae) and Cyanobacteria. Based on our results, polar microorganisms could not only be considered as deposited airborne particles, but as an active component of the snowpack ecology of the High Antarctic Plateau.
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