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dc.contributor.authorGokul, Jarishma K.
dc.contributor.authorValverde, Angel
dc.contributor.authorTuffin, Marla
dc.contributor.authorCary, Stephen Craig
dc.contributor.authorCowan, Donald A.
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-22T09:46:35Z
dc.date.available2014-08-22T09:46:35Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.citationGokul, J.K. et al. (2013). Micro-Eukaryotic diversity in Hypolithons from Miers Valley, Antarctica. Biology, 2: 331-340en_US
dc.identifier.issn2079-7737
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/1200
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.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)en_US
dc.rights© 2013 Gokul, et al.; licensee Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biology2010331
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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dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue


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