Strong in combination: Polyphasic approach enhances arguments for cold-assigned cyanobacterial endemism.

ABSTRACT: Cyanobacteria of biological soil crusts (BSCs) represent an important part of circumpolar and Alpine ecosystems, serve as indicators for ecological condition and climate change, and function as ecosystem engineers by soil stabilization or carbon and nitrogen input. The characterization of cyanobacteria from both polar regions remains extremely important to understand geographic distribution patterns and community compositions. This study is the first of its kind revealing the efficiency of combining denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE), light microscopy and culture-based 16S rRNA gene sequencing, applied to polar and Alpine cyanobacteria dominated BSCs. This study aimed to show the living proportion of cyanobacteria as an extension to previously published meta-transcriptome data

SUBMITTER: Jung P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6528576 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature