Microbial Biogeography of Six Salt Lakes in Inner Mongolia, China, and a Salt Lake in Argentina

• Published in: Applied and Environmental Microbiology Vol. 75; no. 18; pp. 5750 - 5760
• Main Authors: Pagaling, Eulyn, Wang, Huanzhi, Venables, Madeleine, Wallace, Andrew, Grant, William D, Cowan, Don A, Jones, Brian E, Ma, Yanhe, Ventosa, Antonio, Heaphy, Shaun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC American Society for Microbiology 01.09.2009; American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
• Subjects: Archaea - classification; Archaea - genetics; Archaea - isolation & purification; Argentina; Bacteria - classification; Bacteria - genetics; Bacteria - isolation & purification; Biodiversity; Biogeography; Biological and medical sciences; China; Cluster Analysis; DNA, Archaeal - chemistry; DNA, Archaeal - genetics; DNA, Bacterial - chemistry; DNA, Bacterial - genetics; DNA, Ribosomal - chemistry; DNA, Ribosomal - genetics; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Genes; Genes, rRNA; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; International comparisons; Lakes; Microbial Ecology; Microbiology; Molecular Sequence Data; Organisms; Phylogeny; Ribonucleic acid; RNA; RNA, Archaeal - genetics; RNA, Bacterial - genetics; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S - genetics; Salts - analysis; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; Water - analysis; Water Microbiology; Argentina; China; Mongolia; Biogeography; Lakes; Microorganism

We used cultivation-independent methods to investigate the prokaryotic biogeography of the water column in six salt lakes in Inner Mongolia, China, and a salt lake in Argentina. These lakes had different salt compositions and pH values and were at variable geographic distances, on both local and int...