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Bacterial Diversity in a Nonsaline Alkaline Environment

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Continental low-salinity serpentinizing ecosystem; Continental serpentinite-hosted alkaline seeps; Continental serpentinite springs

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Metagenome represents total genomes of all microbes inhabiting low-saline serpentinization-driven subterrestrial alkaline water ecosystems. Metagenomics will include all molecular biology techniques that were used to analyze metagenome, including sequencing 16S rRNA genes and specific functional genes, additionally to genome shotgun sequencing by new generation sequencing-NGS technology.

Introduction

Naturally occurring continental alkaline environments comprise soda lakes, soda deserts (Grant 2006), and low-saline-alkaline environments. Low-saline-alkaline environments are generally related with a unique geochemical process known as serpentinization. Serpentinization occurs, on the deep sea floor or on the continental crust, when ultramafic rocks of Earth’s mantle (i.e., olivine and pyroxenes) are exposed to water, leading to the...

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  1. Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Apartado 3046, 3001-401, Coimbra, Centro, Portugal

    António Veríssimo & Igor Tiago

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    Karen E. Nelson

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Veríssimo, A., Tiago, I. (2013). Bacterial Diversity in a Nonsaline Alkaline Environment. In: Nelson, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Metagenomics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6418-1_469-1

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