Archaeal and Extremophilic Bacteria from Different Archaeological Excavation Sites.

ABSTRACT: Beside natural factors, human activities are important for the development of microbiomes. Thus, local soil bacterial communities are affected by recent activities such as agriculture, mining and industry. In addition, ancient human impacts dating back centuries or millennia have changed soils and can emboss the recent bacterial communities up to now, representing a certain long-term "memory of soil". Soil samples from five different archaeological excavation places were investigated for the presence of Archaea with a Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) analysis of the DNA coding for 16S r-RNA sequences. It was found that the abundance of Archaea differs strongly between less than one and more than 40 percent of bacteria. A Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of all samples shows

SUBMITTER: Kohler JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10052888 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature