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SUBMITTER: Fang L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4618613 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fang Lei L Chen Lei L Liu Yuan Y Tao Wei W Zhang Zhongzhe Z Liu Haiying H Tang Yong Y
MicrobiologyOpen 20150803 5
Lake Sayram is an ancient cold water lake locating at a mountain basin in Xinjiang, China. The lake water is brackish, alkaline, unpolluted, and abundant in SO4(2-) and Mg(2+). The lacustrine ecosystem of Lake Sayram has been intensely investigated. However, profiles of the microbial communities in the lake remain largely unknown. In this study, taxonomic compositions of the planktonic and sedimentary bacterial communities in Lake Sayram were investigated using 16S rRNA metagenomics. The lacustr ...[more]