Project description:Biological soil crusts (BSCs) are cyanobacteria-dominated microbial communities that cover extensive portions of the world’s arid and semi-arid deserts. The infrequent periods of hydration are often too short to allow for dormancy strategies based on sporulation; consequently, survival is based on the unique capabilities of vegetative cells to resuscitate from and re-enter a stress resistant dormant state, one of which is migration within the crust layers in response to hydration. In this study, we sought to characterize the events that govern the emergence of the dominant cyanobacterium from dormancy, its subsequent growth, and the events triggered by re-desiccation and a transition back to dormant state. We performed a 48 hour laboratory wetting experiment of a desert BSC and tracked the response of Microcoleus vaginatus using a whole genome transcriptional time-course including night/day periods. This allowed the identification of genes with a diel expression pattern, genes involved uniquely in the signaling after hydration and those that contribute primarily to desiccation preparation.

2012-10-30 | GSE40188 | GEO

Fungi community of biological soil crusts in 2015

Project description:Fungi community of biological soil crusts in 2015 Targeted loci environmental

| PRJNA636588 | ENA

Dynamic transcriptional response of Microcoleus vaginatus to hydration and dehydration in a desert biological soil crust

2012-10-30 | E-GEOD-40188 | biostudies-arrayexpress

Biological soil crusts samples from Maritime Antarctica - Raw sequence reads

Project description:Biological soil crusts samples from Maritime Antarctica - Raw sequence reads

| PRJNA765698 | ENA

Cyanobacteria in Negev

Project description:Cyanobacterial diversity in biological soil crusts of the Negev/Israel

| PRJEB6719 | ENA