A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Microbiology".

This Special Issue invites you to join in by submitting contributions concerning the role of microbes in the functioning of extremely cold ecosystems, by including as main topics correlations between microbial diversity and polar environmental conditions, temporal and spatial changes in polar microbial communities, metagenomics and molecular advances in polar microbial ecology, relationships and symbiotic associations of cold-adapted microbes with their implications, biogeochemical processes in polar habitats, polar bioprospecting, role of polar microbes in restoration of environments, and biotechnological applications of these extremophiles.

Deadline for manuscript submissions:  31 July 2020

Special Issue Editors: Angelina Lo Giudice (CNR-ISP), Carmen Rizzo (UNI-Me), Maurizio Azzaro (CNR-ISP)