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Research article
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10 Feb 2021
Research article |
| 10 Feb 2021
| 10 Feb 2021
The composition of endolithic communities in gypcrete is determined by the specific microhabitat architecture
María Cristina Casero
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Departamento Biogeoquímica y Ecología Microbiana, Museo
Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, 28006, Spain
Victoria Meslier
Department of Biology and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
now at: MetaGenoPolis, Jouy-en-Josas, France
Jocelyne DiRuggiero
Department of Biology and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences,
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA
Antonio Quesada
Departamento de Biología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid,
Madrid, 28014, Spain
Carmen Ascaso
Departamento Biogeoquímica y Ecología Microbiana, Museo
Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, 28006, Spain
Octavio Artieda
Departamento de Biología Vegetal, Ecología y Ciencias de la
Tierra, Universidad de Extremadura, Plasencia, 06006, Spain
Tomasz Kowaluk
Institute of Metrology and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of
Mechatronics, Warsaw University of Technology, 02-525 Warsaw, Poland
Jacek Wierzchos
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Departamento Biogeoquímica y Ecología Microbiana, Museo
Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid, 28006, Spain
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Short summary
Endolithic microhabitats have been described as the last refuge for life in arid and hyper-arid deserts where life has to deal with harsh environmental conditions, such as those in the Atacama Desert. In this work, three different endolithic microhabitats occurring in gypcrete rocks of the Atacama Desert are characterized, using both microscopy and molecular techniques, to show if the architecture of each microhabitat has an influence on the microbial communities inhabiting each of them.
Endolithic microhabitats have been described as the last refuge for life in arid and hyper-arid...
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