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Microbial diversity is determined by the genetic diversity of ribosomal genes 16S for bacteria and archaea and 18S for protists. Microbial novelty indicates the uniqueness of the identity level of a given sequence based on BLAST search comparison against the ribosomal gene sequences previously reported in GenBank (usually <97% identity). The gradient of saline concentrations explored here ranged c. 20 times from 20 up to 370 g/L, when NaCl precipitates.
Introduction
Coastal salterns and inland salt lakes are widely distributed ecosystems around the world. In the Mediterranean region, there has been a long tradition to use solar saltern systems for salt production in seawater evaporation ponds. Multipond solar salterns are semi-artificial coastal systems designed to harvest common salt (NaCl) from seawater. Sequential precipitation of CaCO3 and CaSO4occurs during the first stages of...
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Casamayor, E.O., Triadó-Margarit, X. (2013). Microbial Diversity and Novelty Along Salinity Gradients. In: Nelson, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Metagenomics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6418-1_805-1
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