Functional traits and adaptation of lake microbiomes on the Tibetan Plateau.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Tibetan Plateau is credited as the "Third Pole" after the Arctic and the Antarctic, and lakes there represent a pristine habitat ideal for studying microbial processes under climate change.

Results

Here, we collected 169 samples from 54 lakes including those from the central Tibetan region that was underrepresented previously, grouped them to freshwater, brackish, and saline lakes, and generated a genome atlas of the Tibetan Plateau Lake Microbiome. This genomic atlas comprises 8271 metagenome-assembled genomes featured by having significant phylogenetic and functional novelty. The microbiomes of freshwater lakes are enriched with genes involved in recalcitrant carbon degradation, carbon fixation, and energy transformation, whereas those of saline lakes possess mo

SUBMITTER: Feng X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11662823 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature