Contemporary environmental variation determines microbial diversity patterns in acid mine drainage

• Published in: The ISME Journal Vol. 7; no. 5; pp. 1038 - 1050
• Main Authors: Kuang, Jia-Liang, Huang, Li-Nan, Chen, Lin-Xing, Hua, Zheng-Shuang, Li, Sheng-Jin, Hu, Min, Li, Jin-Tian, Shu, Wen-Sheng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.05.2013; Oxford University Press; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/158/670; 631/158/852; 631/326/2565/855; Abundance; Acid mine drainage; Bacteria - classification; Bacteria - genetics; Bacteria - isolation & purification; Betaproteobacteria - genetics; Betaproteobacteria - isolation & purification; Biodiversity; Biomedical and Life Sciences; China; Ecological distribution; Ecology; Euryarchaeota; Evolutionary Biology; Groundwater - microbiology; Life Sciences; Microbial activity; Microbial Ecology; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Microbiology; Microorganisms; Mining; Original; original-article; Phylogeny; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S - genetics; China, People's Rep; pyrosequencing; acid mine drainage; contemporary environmental variation; microbial diversity; biogeography; geographical distance

A wide array of microorganisms survive and thrive in extreme environments. However, we know little about the patterns of, and controls over, their large-scale ecological distribution. To this end, we have applied a bar-coded 16S rRNA pyrosequencing technology to explore the phylogenetic differentiat...