Organismal and spatial partitioning of energy and macronutrient transformations within a hypersaline mat.

ABSTRACT: Phototrophic mat communities are model ecosystems for studying energy cycling and elemental transformations because complete biogeochemical cycles occur over millimeter-to-centimeter scales. Characterization of energy and nutrient capture within hypersaline phototrophic mats has focused on specific processes and organisms; however, little is known about community-wide distribution of and linkages between these processes. To investigate energy and macronutrient capture and flow through a structured community, the spatial and organismal distribution of metabolic functions within a compact hypersaline mat community from Hot Lake have been broadly elucidated through species-resolved metagenomics and geochemical, microbial diversity and metabolic gradient measurements. Draft reconstructed genom

SUBMITTER: Mobberley JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5812542 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature