Archaeal Communities in Deep Terrestrial Subsurface Underneath the Deccan Traps, India

Archaeal Communities in Deep Terrestrial Subsurface Underneath the Deccan Traps, India

Archaeal community structure and potential functions within the deep, aphotic, oligotrophic, hot, igneous provinces of ∼65 Myr old basalt and its Archean granitic basement was explored through archaeal 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing from extracted environmental DNA of rocks. Rock core samples fro...

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Main Authors: Avishek Dutta, Pinaki Sar, Jayeeta Sarkar, Srimanti Dutta Gupta, Abhishek Gupta, Himadri Bose, Abhijit Mukherjee, Sukanta Roy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-07-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
deep biosphere
archaeal diversity
Deccan traps
Illumina sequencing
metabolism
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2019.01362/full

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