A glimpse of the prokaryotic diversity of the Large Aral Sea reveals novel extremophilic bacterial and archaeal groups

Abstract During the last five decades, the Aral Sea has gradually changed from a saline water body to a hypersaline lake. Microbial community inhabiting the Aral Sea has been through a succession and continuous adaptation during the last 50 years of increasing salinization, but so far, the microbial...

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Main Authors: Vyacheslav Shurigin, Anna Hakobyan, Hovik Panosyan, Dilfuza Egamberdieva, Kakhramon Davranov, Nils‐Kåre Birkeland
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-09-01
Series:MicrobiologyOpen
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/mbo3.850