Culture-Independent Survey of Thermophilic Microbial Communities of the North Caucasus.

ABSTRACT: The Greater Caucasus is a part of seismically active Alpine-Himalayan orogenic belt and has been a center of significant volcanic activity during the Quaternary period. That led to the formation of the number of hydrothermal habitats, including subterranean thermal aquifers and surface hot springs. However, there are only a limited number of scientific works reporting on the microbial communities of these habitats. Moreover, all these reports concern only studies of specific microbial taxa, carried out using classical cultivation approaches. In this work, we present first culture-independent study of hydrotherms in the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, located in the southern part of the North Caucasus. Using 16S metabarcoding, we analyzed the composition of the microbial communities of tw

SUBMITTER: Toshchakov SV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8698779 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature