Actinobacterial Rare Biospheres and Dark Matter Revealed in Habitats of the Chilean Atacama Desert

Abstract The Atacama Desert is the most extreme non-polar biome on Earth, the core region of which is considered to represent the dry limit for life and to be an analogue for Martian soils. This study focused on actinobacteria because they are keystone species in terrestrial ecosystems and are ackno...

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Main Authors: Hamidah Idris, Michael Goodfellow, Roy Sanderson, Juan A. Asenjo, Alan T. Bull
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-08-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08937-4