Benthic microbial communities from the McMurdo Dry Valleys provide insights into microbial ecology, life on early earth, and the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis.
Christen Grettenberger1, Dawn Y Sumner2, Jessica Mizzi1, Sydney Olivia Salley1, Kate Wall3, Tyler Mackey4, Anne D Jungblut5 and Ian Hawes6, (1)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (2)University of California, Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, CA, United States, (3)University of California Davis, Davis, United States, (4)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (5)The Natural History Museum, Department of Life Sciences, London, United Kingdom, (6)University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
