New cyanobacterial genus Argonema is hidding in soil crusts around the world
Abstract Cyanobacteria are crucial primary producers in soil and soil crusts. However, their biodiversity in these habitats remains poorly understood, especially in the tropical and polar regions. We employed whole genome sequencing, morphology, and ecology to describe a novel cyanobacterial genus A...
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| author | Svatopluk Skoupý Aleksandar Stanojković Markéta Pavlíková Aloisie Poulíčková Petr Dvořák |
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| description | Abstract Cyanobacteria are crucial primary producers in soil and soil crusts. However, their biodiversity in these habitats remains poorly understood, especially in the tropical and polar regions. We employed whole genome sequencing, morphology, and ecology to describe a novel cyanobacterial genus Argonema isolated from Antarctica. Extreme environments are renowned for their relatively high number of endemic species, but whether cyanobacteria are endemic or not is open to much current debate. To determine if a cyanobacterial lineage is endemic is a time consuming, elaborate, and expensive global sampling effort. Thus, we propose an approach that will help to overcome the limits of the sampling effort and better understand the global distribution of cyanobacterial clades. We employed a Sequencing Read Archive, which provides a rich source of data from thousands of environmental samples. We developed a framework for a characterization of the global distribution of any microbial species using Sequencing Read Archive. Using this approach, we found that Argonema is actually cosmopolitan in arid regions. It provides further evidence that endemic microbial taxa are likely to be much rarer than expected. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7c86abb7600243dbb3692dff199a9c322022-12-22T00:19:29ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222022-05-0112111510.1038/s41598-022-11288-4New cyanobacterial genus Argonema is hidding in soil crusts around the worldSvatopluk Skoupý0Aleksandar Stanojković1Markéta Pavlíková2Aloisie Poulíčková3Petr Dvořák4Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Palacký University OlomoucDepartment of Botany, Faculty of Science, Palacký University OlomoucDepartment of Botany, Faculty of Science, Palacký University OlomoucDepartment of Botany, Faculty of Science, Palacký University OlomoucDepartment of Botany, Faculty of Science, Palacký University OlomoucAbstract Cyanobacteria are crucial primary producers in soil and soil crusts. However, their biodiversity in these habitats remains poorly understood, especially in the tropical and polar regions. We employed whole genome sequencing, morphology, and ecology to describe a novel cyanobacterial genus Argonema isolated from Antarctica. Extreme environments are renowned for their relatively high number of endemic species, but whether cyanobacteria are endemic or not is open to much current debate. To determine if a cyanobacterial lineage is endemic is a time consuming, elaborate, and expensive global sampling effort. Thus, we propose an approach that will help to overcome the limits of the sampling effort and better understand the global distribution of cyanobacterial clades. We employed a Sequencing Read Archive, which provides a rich source of data from thousands of environmental samples. We developed a framework for a characterization of the global distribution of any microbial species using Sequencing Read Archive. Using this approach, we found that Argonema is actually cosmopolitan in arid regions. It provides further evidence that endemic microbial taxa are likely to be much rarer than expected.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11288-4 |
| spellingShingle | Svatopluk Skoupý Aleksandar Stanojković Markéta Pavlíková Aloisie Poulíčková Petr Dvořák New cyanobacterial genus Argonema is hidding in soil crusts around the world Scientific Reports |
| title | New cyanobacterial genus Argonema is hidding in soil crusts around the world |
| title_full | New cyanobacterial genus Argonema is hidding in soil crusts around the world |
| title_fullStr | New cyanobacterial genus Argonema is hidding in soil crusts around the world |
| title_full_unstemmed | New cyanobacterial genus Argonema is hidding in soil crusts around the world |
| title_short | New cyanobacterial genus Argonema is hidding in soil crusts around the world |
| title_sort | new cyanobacterial genus argonema is hidding in soil crusts around the world |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11288-4 |
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