16S rRNA Gene Diversity in the Salt Crust of Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia, the World's Largest Salt Flat.

ABSTRACT: Salar de Uyuni is a vast, high-altitude salt flat in Bolivia with extreme physico-geochemical properties approaching multiple limits of life. Evidence for diverse halophilic bacteria and archaea was found in its surface and near-surface salt crust using 16S amplicon analysis, providing a snapshot of prokaryotic life.

SUBMITTER: Pecher WT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7242672 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature