Cyanobacteria and Algae in Clouds and Rain in the Area of puy de Dome, Central France.

ABSTRACT: The atmosphere contains diverse living microbes, of which the heterotrophic community has been the best studied. Microbes with other trophic modes, such as photoautotrophy, have received much less attention. In this study, culture-independent and dependent methods were used to examine the presence and diversity of oxygenic photoautotrophic microbes in clouds and rain collected at or around puy de Dôme Mountain, central France. Cloud water was collected from the summit of puy de Dôme (1,465 m above sea level [a.s.l.]) for cultivation and metagenomic analysis. Cyanobacteria, diatoms, green algae, and other oxygenic photoautotrophs were found to be recurrent members of clouds, while green algae affiliated with the Chlorellaceae were successfully cultured from three different clouds. Additiona

SUBMITTER: Dillon KP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7755241 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature