Distribution of Mixotrophy and Desiccation Survival Mechanisms across Microbial Genomes in an Arid Biological Soil Crust Community | Zendy

Dimitri V. Meier | Zendy; Stefanie Imminger | Zendy; Osnat Gillor | Zendy; Dagmar Woebken | Zendy

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Distribution of Mixotrophy and Desiccation Survival Mechanisms across Microbial Genomes in an Arid Biological Soil Crust Community

Author(s) -

Dimitri V. Meier,

Stefanie Imminger,

Osnat Gillor,

Dagmar Woebken

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

msystems

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.931

H-Index - 39

ISSN - 2379-5077

DOI - 10.1128/msystems.00786-20

Subject(s) - arid , metagenomics , biology , ecosystem , ecology , desiccation , genome , trophic level , biodiversity , evolutionary biology , gene , genetics

This study represents a comprehensive community-wide genome-centered metagenome analysis of biological soil crust (BSC) communities in arid environments, providing insights into the distribution of genes encoding different energy generation mechanisms, as well as survival strategies, among populations in an arid soil ecosystem. It reveals the metabolic potential of several uncultured and previously unsequenced microbial genera, families, and orders, as well as differences in the metabolic potential between the most abundant BSC populations and their cultured relatives, highlighting once more the danger of inferring function on the basis of taxonomy.

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