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Antarctic bacteria share ‘life-support’ genes to survive extreme conditions

By Yongyi Peng, PhD Candidate in Environmental Microbiology, Monash University
Ry Holland, Research Fellow in Microbial Ecology, Monash University

Existence is hard in the frozen Antarctic soil – and microbes use ‘horizontal gene transfer’ to share the tools that keep them alive.

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