16S rRNA Gene Diversity in the Salt Crust of Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, the World’s Largest Salt Flat

Salar de Uyuni is a vast, high-altitude salt flat in Bolivia with extreme physico-geochemical properties approaching multiple limits of life. Evidence for diverse halophilic bacteria and archaea was found in its surface and near-surface salt crust using 16S amplicon analysis, providing a snapshot of...

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Autores principales: Pecher, Wolf T., Martínez, Fabiana L., DasSarma, Priya, Guzmán, Daniel, DasSarma, Shiladitya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2020
Materias:
Amplicon Sequence Collections
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7242672/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32439670
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/MRA.00374-20
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Sumario:Salar de Uyuni is a vast, high-altitude salt flat in Bolivia with extreme physico-geochemical properties approaching multiple limits of life. Evidence for diverse halophilic bacteria and archaea was found in its surface and near-surface salt crust using 16S amplicon analysis, providing a snapshot of prokaryotic life.

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