Biodiversity of the microbial mat of the Garga hot spring

Abstract Background Microbial mats are a good model system for ecological and evolutionary analysis of microbial communities. There are more than 20 alkaline hot springs on the banks of the Barguzin river inflows. Water temperature reaches 75 °C and pH is usually 8.0–9.0. The formation of microbial...

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Main Authors: Alexey Sergeevich Rozanov, Alla Victorovna Bryanskaya, Timofey Vladimirovich Ivanisenko, Tatyana Konstantinovna Malup, Sergey Evgenievich Peltek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-12-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-017-1106-9