ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2019
Uncovering the Uncultivated Majority in Antarctic Soils: Toward a Synergistic Approach.
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- Genomic and experimental characterization of unique Antarctic temperate phage Perkons reveals multiple integrases and complex lysogenic dynamics in Psychrobacillus sp. L4.BMC microbiology · 2026Article
- Genomic and phenotypic characterization of AntarcticFrontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Evidence for Trace Gas Metabolism and Widespread Antibiotic Synthesis in an Abiotically Driven, Antarctic Soil Ecosystem.Environmental microbiology reports · 2025Article
- Intrathalline Fungal and Bacterial Diversity Is Uncovered in Antarctic Lichen Symbioses.Environmental microbiology reports · 2025Article
- Bioprospecting Antarctic Microorganisms: InvestigatingJournal of microbiology and biotechnology · 2025Article
- Advocating microbial diversity conservation in Antarctica.npj biodiversity · 2025Review
- RNA virus diversity highlights the potential biosecurity threat posed by Antarctic krill.Marine life science & technology · 2025Article
- Bacterial Diversity, Metabolic Profiling, and Application Potential of Antarctic Soil Metagenomes.Current issues in molecular biology · 2024Article
- Comparative analysis of bacterial diversity in accumulated snow and exposed sediments across Antarctic Islands.Brazilian journal of microbiology : [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology] · 2024Article
- Changes in nutrient availability substantially alter bacteria and extracellular enzymatic activities in Antarctic soils.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024Article
- Geology defines microbiome structure and composition in nunataks and valleys of the Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- The Vestfold Hills are alive: characterising microbial and environmental dynamics in Old Wallow, eastern Antarctica.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Clearing the air: unraveling past and guiding future research in atmospheric chemosynthesis.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2023Review
- Microbial diversity in Antarctic Dry Valley soils across an altitudinal gradient.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Atmospheric chemosynthesis is phylogenetically and geographically widespread and contributes significantly to carbon fixation throughout cold deserts.The ISME journal · 2022Article
- Soil substrate culturing approaches recover diverse members of Actinomycetota from desert soils of Herring Island, East Antarctica.Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions · 2022Article
- New cyanobacterial genus Argonema is hidding in soil crusts around the world.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Endolithic Bacterial Diversity in Lichen-Dominated Communities Is Shaped by Sun Exposure in McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica.Microbial ecology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Although Antarctica was once believed to be a sterile environment, it is now clear that the microbial communities inhabiting the Antarctic continent are surprisingly diverse. Until the beginning of the new millennium, little was known about the most abundant inhabitants of the continent: prokaryotes. From then on, however, the rising use of deep sequencing techniques has led to a better understanding of the Antarctic prokaryote diversity and provided insights in the composition of prokaryotic communities in different Antarctic environments. Although these cultivation-independent approaches can produce millions of sequences, linking these data to organisms is hindered by several problems. The largest difficulty is the lack of biological information on large parts of the microbial tree of life, arising from the fact that most microbial diversity on Earth has never been characterized in laboratory cultures. These unknown prokaryotes, also known as microbial dark matter, have been dominantly detected in all major environments on our planet. Laboratory cultures provide access to the complete genome and the means to experimentally verify genomic predictions and metabolic functions and to provide evidence of horizontal gene transfer. Without such well-documented reference data, microbial dark matter will remain a major blind spot in deep sequencing studies. Here, we review our current understanding of prokaryotic communities in Antarctic ice-free soils based on cultivation-dependent and cultivation-independent approaches. We discuss advantages and disadvantages of both approaches and how these strategies may be combined synergistically to strengthen each other and allow a more profound understanding of prokaryotic life on the frozen continent.
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