@article {5008,
	title = {A comprehensive survey of soil microbial diversity across the Antarctic continent},
	journal = {Polar Biology},
	volume = {48},
	year = {2025},
	month = {02/2025},
	abstract = {<p>Antarctic soils are unique from those found nearly anywhere else on Earth yet can still harbor a broad diversity of microorganisms able to tolerate the challenging conditions typical of the continent. For these reasons, microbiologists have been drawn to Antarctica for decades. However, our understanding of which microbes thrive in Antarctic soils and how they to do so remains limited. To help resolve these knowledge gaps, we analyzed a collection of 200 archived Antarctic soils\&mdash;from Livingston Island on the Antarctic Peninsula to Cape Hallett in northern Victoria Land. We analyzed the prokaryotic and fungal communities in these soils using both cultivation-independent marker gene sequencing and cultivation-dependent approaches (microbial isolation), paired with extensive soil geochemical analyses. Our cultivation-independent analyses indicate that colder, saltier, and drier soils harbor less diverse communities of bacteria and fungi, distinct from those found in soils with less challenging conditions. We also built a culture collection from a subset of these soils that encompasses more than 50 bacterial and fungal genera, including cold-tolerant organisms, such as \&lt;i\&gt;Cryobacterium\&lt;/i\&gt; and \&lt;i\&gt;Cryomyces\&lt;/i\&gt;. By directly comparing the diversity of our cultured isolates against our cultivation-independent data, we show that many of the more abundant Antarctic taxa are not readily cultivated and highlight bacterial and fungal taxa that should be the focus of future cultivation efforts. Together, we hope that our collection of isolates, the comprehensive data compiled from the cultivation-independent analyses, and our geochemical analyses will serve as a community resource to accelerate the study of Antarctic soil microbes.</p>},
	keywords = {LTER-MCM, Antarctica, bacteria, fungi, microbial ecology, soils},
	issn = {0722-4060},
	doi = {10.1007/s00300-025-03372-y},
	url = {https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00300-025-03372-y},
	author = {Dragone, Nicholas B. and Childress, Mary K. and Vanderburgh, Caihong and Willmore, Rachel and Hogg, Ian D. and Sancho, Leopoldo G. and Charles K. Lee and John E. Barrett and Quandt, C. Alisha and LeMonte, Joshua J. and Adams, Byron J. and Noah Fierer}
}
@article {4112,
	title = {A communal catalogue reveals Earth{\textquoteright}s multiscale microbial diversity},
	journal = {Nature},
	volume = {551},
	year = {2017},
	month = {11/2017},
	chapter = {457},
	abstract = {<p>Our growing awareness of the microbial world\&rsquo;s importance and diversity contrasts starkly with our limited understanding of its fundamental structure. Despite recent advances in DNA sequencing, a lack of standardized protocols and common analytical frameworks impedes comparisons among studies, hindering the development of global inferences about microbial life on Earth. Here we present a meta-analysis of microbial community samples collected by hundreds of researchers for the Earth Microbiome Project. Coordinated protocols and new analytical methods, particularly the use of exact sequences instead of clustered operational taxonomic units, enable bacterial and archaeal ribosomal RNA gene sequences to be followed across multiple studies and allow us to explore patterns of diversity at an unprecedented scale. The result is both a reference database giving global context to DNA sequence data and a framework for incorporating data from future studies, fostering increasingly complete characterization of Earth\&rsquo;s microbial diversity.</p>},
	keywords = {LTER-MCM},
	doi = {10.1038/nature24621},
	url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24621},
	author = {Thompson, Luke R. and Sanders, Jon G. and McDonald, Daniel and Amir, Amnon and Ladau, Joshua and Locey, Kenneth J. and Prill, Robert J. and Tripathi, Anupriya and Gibbons, Sean M. and Ackermann, Gail and Navas-Molina, Jose A. and Janssen, Stefan and Kopylova, Evguenia and V{\'a}zquez-Baeza, Yoshiki and Antonio Gonz{\'a}lez and Morton, James T. and Mirarab, Siavash and Zech Xu, Zhenjiang and Jiang, Lingjing and Haroon, Mohamed F. and Kanbar, Jad and Zhu, Qiyun and Jin Song, Se and Kosciolek, Tomasz and Bokulich, Nicholas A. and Lefler, Joshua and Brislawn, Colin J. and Humphrey, Gregory and Owens, Sarah M. and Hampton-Marcell, Jarrad and Berg-Lyons, Donna and McKenzie, Valerie and Noah Fierer and Fuhrman, Jed A. and Clauset, Aaron and Stevens, Rick L. and Shade, Ashley and Pollard, Katherine S. and Goodwin, Kelly D. and Jansson, Janet K. and Gilbert, Jack A. and Knight, Rob and The Earth Microbiome Project Consortium}
}
@article {1108,
	title = {Cross-biome metagenomic analyses of soil microbial communities and their functional attributes},
	journal = {Proceedings Bational Academy of Sciences},
	year = {2012},
	month = {11/2012},
	keywords = {LTER-MCM},
	doi = {10.1073/pnas.1215210110},
	url = {www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1215210110},
	author = {Noah Fierer and Jonathan W. Leff and Byron Adams and Uffe N. Nielsen and Scott T. Bates and Christian L. Lauber and Sarah Owens and Jack A. Gilbert and Diana H. Wall and J. Gregory Caporaso}
}
