ANTARCTIC RELIC MICROBIAL MAT COMMUNITY REVEALED BY METAGENOMICS AND METATRANSCRIPTOMICS

Buried upslope from the modern lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica are relict lake deposits embedded in valley walls.Within these relict deposits, ancient microbial mats, or paleomats, have been preserved under extremely arid and cold conditions Toddler since the receding of larger paleolakes thousands of years ago, and now serve as a sh

The feeding of wild birds in domestic gardens is one of the most widespread and popular forms of human-wildlife interaction throughout the Western World.The increasing recognition of the benefits to human health and well-being of contact with nature, especially in an increasingly urbanized world, reveals the need for a greater understanding of why