16S rRNA Gene Diversity in the Salt Crust of Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, the World’s Largest Salt Flat-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

16S rRNA Gene Diversity in the Salt Crust of Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, the World’s Largest Salt Flat

Published:2020-05-21 Issue:21 Volume:9 Page:
ISSN:2576-098X
Container-title:Microbiology Resource Announcements
language:en
Short-container-title:Microbiol Resour Announc

Author:

Pecher Wolf T.¹²,Martínez Fabiana L.¹³,DasSarma Priya¹,Guzmán Daniel⁴,DasSarma Shiladitya¹

Affiliation:

1. Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

2. Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences, University of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

3. Instituto de Investigaciones para la Industria Química, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Salta, Argentina

4. Centro de Biotecnología, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia

Abstract

Salar de Uyuni is a vast, high-altitude salt flat in Bolivia with extreme physico-geochemical properties approaching multiple limits of life. Evidence for diverse halophilic bacteria and archaea was found in its surface and near-surface salt crust using 16S amplicon analysis, providing a snapshot of prokaryotic life.

Funder

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Genetics,Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous),Molecular Biology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/MRA.00374-20

Reference20 articles.

1. Distribution, salinity and pH dependence of elements in surface waters of the catchment areas of the Salars of Coipasa and Uyuni, Bolivian Altiplano

2. Bromine geochemistry of salar de Uyuni and deeper salt crusts, Central Altiplano, Bolivia

3. Halophiles