Adaptations of endolithic communities to abrupt environmental changes in a hyper-arid desert
C. Perez-Fernandez, P. Wilburn, A. Davila, J. DiRuggiero
The paper studies microbial community adaptations in halite nodules transplanted to different sites in the Atacama Desert, finding that salt-in strategists dominate in extreme dryness.
bioRxiv · Mar 24, 2022Microbiology