![]() ![]() We found distinct soil compositions between the two sites, and to a lesser extent within Tramway Ridge, correlated with disparate microbial communities. Samples were collected along three thermal gradients, one from Western Crater and two within Tramway Ridge, which allowed an examination of the heterogeneity present at Tramway Ridge. Erebus: Tramway Ridge, a weather-protected high biomass site, and Western Crater, an extremely exposed low biomass site. Using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing and physicochemical analyses, we compared samples collected at two contrasting high-temperature (50☌–65☌) sites on Mt. Erebus, Antarctica, is the world’s southernmost active volcano and is unique in its isolation from other major active volcanic systems and its distinctive geothermal systems. 7Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.6Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.5School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.4Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal.3Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR/CIMAR), University of Porto, Matosinhos, Portugal.2International Centre for Terrestrial Antarctic Research, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. ![]() 1Te Aka Mātuatua-School of Science, Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato-University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.Thanks to Ian, who spotted the omnibus edition in a clearance house bookseller and picked it up for me.Stephen E. There are some scenes that are a little gross out – the mutilation of genitalia for a feed springs to mind – so if overt gore puts you off, you have been warned. Worth a read, even if it had overtones of other work (mainly I Am Legend and ‘Salem’s Lot, the later in the effects on a community, though it was not as in depth and minutiae orientated as King’s novel). Other than this, this was a rollicking little survival horror. A further plot aspect that seemed to get lost was the idea that the bacteria was sporing, the spores appearing upon the skin of the (dead) infected, and yet we hear nothing about perhaps a move to airborne infection. Yet everything (until we hear at the end of further exports of the feed) seems confined to the town and thus the complicit Government is quite happy to seal the town off. Wakely is a farming town and, whilst it might be the testing ground for this experimental feed, one imagines that it exported its meat product through the country, even internationally. ![]() However I did mention one thought that the plot brought to mind. The use of a bacterial infection obviously brought I Am Legend to mind. By the time Vic and Jo figure out what is going on the town has been sealed off, Vandeburg chemicals want them silenced and the infected want their blood. Essentially most of the town become vampires, teeth and nails grow, they become psychotic, light causes lesions on the skin and is quite deadly as the infection builds and they need blood. Those infected are showing the signs of an extreme form of porphyria. The bacteria is in the food chain and has been passed on to humans. The feed uses a synthetic protein, which does not break down like a natural one and has allowed a new bacterial infection to take hold in the animals. He has noticed the strange growth and behaviour in his animals and wonders whether it is to do with a miracle feed created by Vanderburg Chemicals. Vic Tyler has just returned to town and taken over the family farm following the death of his father. He needs to talk to her but, before they meet, he vanishes. Some are growing at an unusual rate, some are born deformed and there are worrying violent and even cannibalistic tendencies becoming apparent.Īmerican journalist Jo Ward, who is working in nearby Arkham, is contacted by a scientist at Vanderburg Chemicals. A countryside town that relies on the farming trade, something is happening with the animals. The small English town of Wakely is having some problems. ![]() The plot, however, did leave one major thought in my mind. Hutson drew characters that we could believe in and the prose flowed well. Let us then begin with the writing style of this novel, which was very readable indeed. I had heard of him, of course, enough to recognise him when he had a cameo appearance in Forest of the Damned. I have to admit that, before reading this, I had never read any of Hutson’s books. ![]()
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