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New cyanobacterial genus Argonema is hiding in soil crusts around the world
Cyanobacteria are crucial primary producers in soil and soil crusts. However, their biodiversity in these habitats remains poorly understood, especially in the tropical and polar regions. We employed whole genome sequencing, morphology, and ecology to describe a novel cyanobacterial genus Argonema i...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9065122/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35504986 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11288-4 |
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author | Skoupý, Svatopluk Stanojković, Aleksandar Pavlíková, Markéta Poulíčková, Aloisie Dvořák, Petr |
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description | Cyanobacteria are crucial primary producers in soil and soil crusts. However, their biodiversity in these habitats remains poorly understood, especially in the tropical and polar regions. We employed whole genome sequencing, morphology, and ecology to describe a novel cyanobacterial genus Argonema isolated from Antarctica. Extreme environments are renowned for their relatively high number of endemic species, but whether cyanobacteria are endemic or not is open to much current debate. To determine if a cyanobacterial lineage is endemic is a time consuming, elaborate, and expensive global sampling effort. Thus, we propose an approach that will help to overcome the limits of the sampling effort and better understand the global distribution of cyanobacterial clades. We employed a Sequencing Read Archive, which provides a rich source of data from thousands of environmental samples. We developed a framework for a characterization of the global distribution of any microbial species using Sequencing Read Archive. Using this approach, we found that Argonema is actually cosmopolitan in arid regions. It provides further evidence that endemic microbial taxa are likely to be much rarer than expected. |
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spelling | pubmed-90651222022-05-04 New cyanobacterial genus Argonema is hiding in soil crusts around the world Skoupý, Svatopluk Stanojković, Aleksandar Pavlíková, Markéta Poulíčková, Aloisie Dvořák, Petr Sci Rep Article Cyanobacteria are crucial primary producers in soil and soil crusts. However, their biodiversity in these habitats remains poorly understood, especially in the tropical and polar regions. We employed whole genome sequencing, morphology, and ecology to describe a novel cyanobacterial genus Argonema isolated from Antarctica. Extreme environments are renowned for their relatively high number of endemic species, but whether cyanobacteria are endemic or not is open to much current debate. To determine if a cyanobacterial lineage is endemic is a time consuming, elaborate, and expensive global sampling effort. Thus, we propose an approach that will help to overcome the limits of the sampling effort and better understand the global distribution of cyanobacterial clades. We employed a Sequencing Read Archive, which provides a rich source of data from thousands of environmental samples. We developed a framework for a characterization of the global distribution of any microbial species using Sequencing Read Archive. Using this approach, we found that Argonema is actually cosmopolitan in arid regions. It provides further evidence that endemic microbial taxa are likely to be much rarer than expected. Nature Publishing Group UK 2022-05-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9065122/ /pubmed/35504986 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11288-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence 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 licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Skoupý, Svatopluk Stanojković, Aleksandar Pavlíková, Markéta Poulíčková, Aloisie Dvořák, Petr New cyanobacterial genus Argonema is hiding in soil crusts around the world |
title | New cyanobacterial genus Argonema is hiding in soil crusts around the world |
title_full | New cyanobacterial genus Argonema is hiding in soil crusts around the world |
title_fullStr | New cyanobacterial genus Argonema is hiding in soil crusts around the world |
title_full_unstemmed | New cyanobacterial genus Argonema is hiding in soil crusts around the world |
title_short | New cyanobacterial genus Argonema is hiding in soil crusts around the world |
title_sort | new cyanobacterial genus argonema is hiding in soil crusts around the world |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9065122/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35504986 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11288-4 |
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