A shared core microbiome in soda lakes separated by large distances

Alkaline lakes have some of the highest productivity rates in freshwater ecosystems. Here the authors report amplicon, metagenome, and proteome sequencing from microbial mat communities of four alkaline lakes in Canada, and compare these lakes to central Asian soda lakes, revealing a shared core mic...

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Main Authors: Jackie K. Zorz, Christine Sharp, Manuel Kleiner, Paul M. K. Gordon, Richard T. Pon, Xiaoli Dong, Marc Strous
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12195-5