Investigating Algal Communities in Lacustrine and Hydro-Terrestrial Environments of East Antarctica Using Deep Amplicon Sequencing.

ABSTRACT: Antarctica has one of the most extreme environments on Earth, with low temperatures and low nutrient levels. Antarctica's organisms live primarily in the coastal, ice-free areas which cover approximately 0.18% of the continent's surface. Members of Cyanobacteria and eukaryotic algae are important primary producers in Antarctica since they can synthesize organic compounds from carbon dioxide and water using solar energy. However, community structures of photosynthetic algae in Antarctica have not yet been fully explored at molecular level. In this study, we collected diverse algal samples in lacustrine and hydro-terrestrial environments of Langhovde and Skarvsnes, which are two ice-free regions in East Antarctica. We performed deep amplicon sequencing of both 16S ribosomal ribonucleic acid

SUBMITTER: Hirose Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7232531 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature