Table 2.

Many of the dominant bacterial taxa identified by previous studies on Antarctic soil fall into similar taxonomic categories.

Rubrobacter, Arthrobacter, Acidobacteria, Oscillatoria, Phormidium, Deinococcus, Sphingomonas, Bacteroides, Brevundimonas, Chloroflexus, Hymenobacter, Leptolyngbya, Nostoc, Pseudonocardia, Psychrobacter, Rhodococcus, Synechococcus, Actinobacteria, Anabaena, Cytophaga, Fervidobacterium, Friedmanniella, Microcoleus, Microcystis, Nitrosospira, Pseudomonas, Sphingobacterium, Sporosarcosina, and Xanthomonas