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  • Eukaryotic diversity of miers valley hypoliths 

    Keriuscia Gokul, Jarishma (University of the Western Cape, 2012)
    The extreme conditions of Antarctic desert soils render this environment selective towards a diverse range of psychrotrophic microbial communities. Cracks and fissures in translucent quartz rocks permit an adequate amount ...
  • Gene Discovery in Antarctic Dry Valley Soils 

    Anderson, Dominique Elizabeth (University of the Western Cape, 2008)
    The metagenomic approach to gene discovery circumvents conventional gene and gene product acquisition by exploiting the uncultured majority of microorganisms in the environment. It was demonstrated in this study that ...