Unlocking the biosynthetic potential and taxonomy of the Antarctic microbiome along temporal and spatial gradients.

ABSTRACT: Extreme environments, such as Antarctica, select microbial communities that display a range of evolutionary strategies to survive and thrive under harsh environmental conditions. These include a diversity of specialized metabolites, which have the potential to be a source for new natural product discovery. Efforts using (meta)genome mining approaches to identify and understand biosynthetic gene clusters in Antarctica are still scarce, and the extent of their diversity and distribution patterns in the environment have yet to be discovered. Herein, we investigated the biosynthetic gene diversity of the biofilm microbial community of Whalers Bay, Deception Island, in the Antarctic Peninsula and revealed its distribution patterns along spatial and temporal gradients by applying metagenome mini

SUBMITTER: Medeiros W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11237469 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature