title: Hypolith sample Type III
organism: soil metagenome
description: Samples were collected from the coastal Miers Valley (78?60’ S, 164? 00’ E) region of Antarctica, which is the southern-most McMurdo Dry Valley, by Prof. D.A. Cowan. Sampling was done in the austral summer of 2010. Soil samples were collected (using aseptic techniques) from both hypolith and surrounding soil, stored in sterile Whirl-Pak bags.