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Microbial diversity in the hypersaline Lake Meyghan, Iran
Lake Meyghan is one of the largest and commercially most important salt lakes in Iran. Despite its inland location and high altitude, Lake Meyghan has a thalassohaline salt composition suggesting a marine origin. Inputs of fresh water by rivers and rainfall formed various basins characterized by dif...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5599592/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28912589 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-11585-3 |
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author | Naghoni, Ali Emtiazi, Giti Amoozegar, Mohammad Ali Cretoiu, Mariana Silvia Stal, Lucas J. Etemadifar, Zahra Shahzadeh Fazeli, Seyed Abolhassan Bolhuis, Henk |
author_facet | Naghoni, Ali Emtiazi, Giti Amoozegar, Mohammad Ali Cretoiu, Mariana Silvia Stal, Lucas J. Etemadifar, Zahra Shahzadeh Fazeli, Seyed Abolhassan Bolhuis, Henk |
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description | Lake Meyghan is one of the largest and commercially most important salt lakes in Iran. Despite its inland location and high altitude, Lake Meyghan has a thalassohaline salt composition suggesting a marine origin. Inputs of fresh water by rivers and rainfall formed various basins characterized by different salinities. We analyzed the microbial community composition of three basins by isolation and culturing of microorganisms and by analysis of the metagenome. The basins that were investigated comprised a green ~50 g kg(−1) salinity brine, a red ~180 g kg(−1) salinity brine and a white ~300 g kg(−1) salinity brine. Using different growth media, 57 strains of Bacteria and 48 strains of Archaea were isolated. Two bacterial isolates represent potential novel species with less than 96% 16S rRNA gene sequence identity to known species. Abundant isolates were also well represented in the metagenome. Bacteria dominated the low salinity brine, with Alteromonadales (Gammaproteobacteria) as a particularly important taxon, whereas the high salinity brines were dominated by haloarchaea. Although the brines of Lake Meyghan differ in geochemical composition, their ecosystem function appears largely conserved amongst each other while being driven by different microbial communities. |
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spelling | pubmed-55995922017-09-15 Microbial diversity in the hypersaline Lake Meyghan, Iran Naghoni, Ali Emtiazi, Giti Amoozegar, Mohammad Ali Cretoiu, Mariana Silvia Stal, Lucas J. Etemadifar, Zahra Shahzadeh Fazeli, Seyed Abolhassan Bolhuis, Henk Sci Rep Article Lake Meyghan is one of the largest and commercially most important salt lakes in Iran. Despite its inland location and high altitude, Lake Meyghan has a thalassohaline salt composition suggesting a marine origin. Inputs of fresh water by rivers and rainfall formed various basins characterized by different salinities. We analyzed the microbial community composition of three basins by isolation and culturing of microorganisms and by analysis of the metagenome. The basins that were investigated comprised a green ~50 g kg(−1) salinity brine, a red ~180 g kg(−1) salinity brine and a white ~300 g kg(−1) salinity brine. Using different growth media, 57 strains of Bacteria and 48 strains of Archaea were isolated. Two bacterial isolates represent potential novel species with less than 96% 16S rRNA gene sequence identity to known species. Abundant isolates were also well represented in the metagenome. Bacteria dominated the low salinity brine, with Alteromonadales (Gammaproteobacteria) as a particularly important taxon, whereas the high salinity brines were dominated by haloarchaea. Although the brines of Lake Meyghan differ in geochemical composition, their ecosystem function appears largely conserved amongst each other while being driven by different microbial communities. Nature Publishing Group UK 2017-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5599592/ /pubmed/28912589 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-11585-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Naghoni, Ali Emtiazi, Giti Amoozegar, Mohammad Ali Cretoiu, Mariana Silvia Stal, Lucas J. Etemadifar, Zahra Shahzadeh Fazeli, Seyed Abolhassan Bolhuis, Henk Microbial diversity in the hypersaline Lake Meyghan, Iran |
title | Microbial diversity in the hypersaline Lake Meyghan, Iran |
title_full | Microbial diversity in the hypersaline Lake Meyghan, Iran |
title_fullStr | Microbial diversity in the hypersaline Lake Meyghan, Iran |
title_full_unstemmed | Microbial diversity in the hypersaline Lake Meyghan, Iran |
title_short | Microbial diversity in the hypersaline Lake Meyghan, Iran |
title_sort | microbial diversity in the hypersaline lake meyghan, iran |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5599592/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28912589 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-11585-3 |
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