Metagenomes in the Borderline Ecosystems of the Antarctic Cryptoendolithic Communities

Claudia Coleine; Davide Albanese; Silvano Onofri; Susannah G Tringe; Christa Pennacchio; Claudio Donati; Jason E Stajich; Laura Selbmann

doi:10.1128/MRA.01599-19

Metagenomes in the Borderline Ecosystems of the Antarctic Cryptoendolithic Communities

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Mar 5;9(10):e01599-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01599-19.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Ecological and Biological Sciences, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy.
² Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Italy.
³ Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, California, USA.
⁴ Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Italy claudio.donati@fmach.it jason.stajich@ucr.edu.
⁵ Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, USA claudio.donati@fmach.it jason.stajich@ucr.edu.
⁶ Institute of Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, California, USA.
⁷ Mycological Section, Italian Antarctic National Museum, Genoa, Italy.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Antarctic cryptoendolithic communities are microbial ecosystems dwelling inside rocks of the Antarctic desert. We present the first 18 shotgun metagenomes from these communities to further characterize their composition, biodiversity, functionality, and adaptation. Future studies will integrate taxonomic and functional annotations to examine the pathways necessary for life to evolve in the extremes.

Grants and funding

S10 OD016290/OD/NIH HHS/United States