Living to the High Extreme: Unraveling the Composition, Structure, and Functional Insights of Bacterial Communities Thriving in the Arsenic-Rich Salar de Huasco Altiplanic Ecosystem

ABSTRACT Microbial communities inhabiting extreme environments such as Salar de Huasco (SH) in northern Chile are adapted to thrive while exposed to several abiotic pressures and the presence of toxic elements such as arsenic (As). Hence, we aimed to uncover the role of As in shaping bacterial compo...

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Main Authors: Juan Castro-Severyn, Coral Pardo-Esté, Katterinne N. Mendez, Jonathan Fortt, Sebastian Marquez, Franck Molina, Eduardo Castro-Nallar, Francisco Remonsellez, Claudia P. Saavedra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2021-09-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/Spectrum.00444-21