Abstract:
Soil samples were collected from the crater of Mt Erebus. Yeast glucose agar and penicillin and streptomycin was used to culture thermophilic microbes, fungi and actinomycetes. Several thermophilic microbes, fungi and actinomycetes were isolated and established in pure culture.
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This study was conducted as part of the University of Canterbury Antarctic Expedition. The data is contained within the publications or please contact the investigator for more information.
In addition, in the University of Canterbury preliminary report, some details of soil samples are reported in Appendix 8.
Greenfield, L.G. Thermophilic fungi and actinomycetes from Mt Erebus, and a fungus pathogenic to Bryum antarcticum at Cape Bird. New Zealand Antarctic record 4(3): 10-11, 1983.
Greenfield, L.G., Wynn-Williams, D. And Broady, P. 1983. University of Canterbury Antarctic Expedition 1982/83, Preliminary report. Botany Department, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
