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Diversity of Bacteria and Archaea in hypersaline sediment from Death Valley National Park, California

Dungan, R.S. and Kim, Jong-Shik and Makama, Mfundi and Petito, Janine and Park, Nyun-Ho and Cohan, F.M. (2012) Diversity of Bacteria and Archaea in hypersaline sediment from Death Valley National Park, California. MicrobiologyOpen. 1(2):135-148. 12 June 2012.

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Abstract

The objective of this study was to phylogenetically analyze microorganisms from the domains Bacteria and Archaea in hypersaline sediment from Death Valley National Park. Using domain-specific primers, a region of the 16S rRNA gene was amplified using PCR, and the product was subsequently used to create a clone library. A total of 243 bacterial clones, 99 archaeal clones, and 209 bacterial isolates were examined. The 243 clones from Bacteria were affiliated with the following groups: the Bacilli (59 clones) and Clostridia (1) of the Firmicutes, Bacteroidetes (90), Proteobacteria (27), Cyanobacteria (18), Gemmatimonadetes (41), candidate division OP1 (5), Actinobacteria (1), and the Deinococcus-Thermus division (1). Within the class Bacilli, 46 of 59 clones were tentatively identified as 10 unclassified species. The majority of bacterial isolates (130 of 209) were more closely related to the Bacillus subtilis-B. licheniformis clade than to any other recognized taxon, and an Ecotype Simulation analysis of B. subtilis relatives identified four previously unknown ecotypes. Several new genera were discovered within the Bacteroidetes (4) and the Gemmatimonadetes (2). Of the 99 Archaeal clones, 93 were tentatively identified as belonging to three new genera within the Halobacteriaceae; other clones represented novel species within each of four established genera.

Item Type: Article
NWISRL Publication Number: 1418
Subjects: Soil
Depositing User: Users 6 not found.
Date Deposited: 13 Jun 2012 17:55
Last Modified: 13 Jun 2012 17:55
Item ID: 1453
URI: https://eprints.nwisrl.ars.usda.gov/id/eprint/1453