Uncovering the Uncultivated Majority in Antarctic Soils: Toward a Synergistic Approach.

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 li

SUBMITTER: Lambrechts S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6385771 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature