Myxobacteria in high moor and fen: An astonishing diversity in a neglected extreme habitat.

ABSTRACT: Increasing antibiotic resistances of numerous pathogens mean that myxobacteria, well known producers of new antibiotics, are becoming more and more interesting. More than 100 secondary metabolites, most of them with bioactivity, were described from the order Myxococcales. Especially new myxobacterial genera and species turned out to be reliable sources for novel antibiotics and can be isolated from uncommon neglected habitats like, for example, acidic soils. Almost nothing is known about the diversity of myxobacteria in moors, except some information from cultivation studies of the 1970s. Therefore, we evaluated the myxobacterial community composition of acidic high moor and fen both with cultivation-independent 16S rRNA clone bank analysis and with cultivation. Phylogenetic analyses of cl

SUBMITTER: Mohr KI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5552953 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature