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SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 37, Issue 6, Pages 429-441Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2014.05.012
Keywords
Geothermal environment biodiversity; Extremophiles; Environmental 16S rRNA clone libraries; FISH; Sulphur cycle
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- CONICET [PIP 0348]
- ANPCYT [PICT-2010-0749]
- MICINN-Spain [CGL2011-22540]
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Copahue is an acidic geothermal volcanic region in the northwest corner of Neuquen Province, Argentina. In the area, there are various ponds, pools and hot springs with different temperatures, pH values and levels of anthropogenic influence. In this study, the prokaryotic biodiversity of five representative ponds was studied by using two complementary molecular ecology techniques: phylogenetic analysis of 16S rRNA bacterial and archaeal genes and FISH (or CARD-FISH) for quantitative estimation of biodiversity. The results, supported by multivariate statistical analysis, showed that the biodiversity in Copahue ponds seemed to be determined by temperature. High temperature ponds were dominated by archaea, mainly apparently novel representatives from the orders Sulfolobales and Thermoplasmatales that had no close cultivated relatives. By contrast, moderate temperature ponds were colonised by well-characterised sulphur-oxidising bacteria related to acidic environments, such as other geothermal sites or acid mine drainage, and archaea were absent. By combining the biodiversity results from this study and the reported physicochemical features of Copahue, a preliminary model of the possible biogeochemical interaction was outlined for moderate and high temperature ponds. (C) 2014 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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