Lia C. R. S. Teixeira

TL;DR: To the best of the knowledge, this is the first major bacterial sequencing effort of this kind of soil, and it revealed more than expected diversity within these rhizospheres of both maritime Antarctica vascular plants in Admiralty Bay, King George Island, which is part of the South Shetlands archipelago.

TL;DR: The results show that the Atacama Desert harbors a noteworthy microbial community that may be considered for future astrobiological-related research in terms of UV tolerance, and vegetarian cells of one of these isolates showed the highest UV tolerance profile.

TL;DR: The results indicate that the microbial communities in Antarctic soils are driven both by bird and plants, and that the effect is taxa-specific.

TL;DR: The magnetotactic coccus magnetofaba australis strain IT-1 was found to be capable of nitrogen fixation, sulfur reduction and oxidation, synthesis of intracellular polyphosphate granules and transporting iron with low and high affinity as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: A population of an uncultured, monotrichously flagellated, and vibrioid MTB collected from a brackish lagoon in Brazil in the Southern Hemisphere that consistently exhibits north-seeking polarity is reported, supporting the idea that magnetotaxis is more complex than previously thought.