3 To test this hypothesis, the team sequenced the bacterial DNA isolated from the guts, oral cavities, appendages, and outer protective covering of the worms they collected from Antarctic waters.

Scientists' yearlong study on Antarctic microbial communities reveals how climate change alters bacterial and phytoplankton ...

Possible effects of this shift in microbe population could have a knock-on effect on the Antarctic ecosystem in addition to the greening effect. Atmospheric chemosynthetic bacteria—or ...

This study was a first, integrating data on bacteria and microbial eukaryotes (small organisms summarized as "microorganisms," including phytoplankton). Samples were taken at two Antarctic ...

Just this week, new scientific discoveries identified that some Antarctic bacteria live on air, and make their water using hydrogen as fuel. When the Southern Ocean has formed some 30 million ...

Coordinated measures highlight that bacteria and other single-celled microorganisms in the seas around Antarctica are strongly influenced by water temperature and the amount of sea ice.

Bacteria that can resist nearly all antibiotics have been found in Antarctic seawater, reports the New Scientist. Björn Olsen of Uppsala University in Sweden and colleagues took seawater samples ...

Researchers from the Polar Research Institute of China (PRIC) have identified and published six new genera and seven new species of Antarctic bacteria, as announced by China's 41st Antarctic ...