New Halonotius Species Provide Genomics-Based Insights Into Cobalamin Synthesis in Haloarchaea.

ABSTRACT: Hypersaline aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems display a cosmopolitan distribution. These environments teem with microbes and harbor a plethora of prokaryotic lineages that evaded ecological characterization due to the prior inability to cultivate them or to access their genomic information. In order to close the current knowledge gap, we performed two sampling and isolation campaigns in the saline soils of the Odiel Saltmarshes and the salterns of Isla Cristina (Huelva, Spain). From the isolated haloarchaeal strains subjected to high-throughput phylogenetic screening, two were chosen (F15BT and F9-27T) for physiological and genomic characterization due of their relatedness to the genus Halonotius. Comparative genomic analyses were carried out between the isolated strains and the genomes o

SUBMITTER: Duran-Viseras A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6719526 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature