Co-occurrence Interaction Networks of Extremophile Species Living in a Copper Mining Tailing.

ABSTRACT: Copper mining tailings are characterized by high concentrations of heavy metals and an acidic pH, conditions that require an extreme adaptation for any organism. Currently, several bacterial species have been isolated and characterized from mining environments; however, very little is known about the structure of microbial communities and how their members interact with each other under the extreme conditions where they live. This work generates a co-occurrence network, representing the bacterial soil community from the Cauquenes copper tailing, which is the largest copper waste deposit worldwide. A representative sampling of six zones from the Cauquenes tailing was carried out to determine pH, heavy metal concentration, total DNA extraction, and subsequent assignment of Operational Taxono

SUBMITTER: Galvez G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8773694 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature