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ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2017

Ecogenomics and Taxonomy of Cyanobacteria Phylum.

Juline M Walter, Felipe H Coutinho, Bas E Dutilh, Jean Swings, Fabiano L Thompson, Cristiane C Thompson

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Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6 authors.

Juline M WalterLaboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Felipe H CoutinhoLaboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Bas E DutilhRadboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Jean SwingsLaboratory of Microbiology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Fabiano L ThompsonLaboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Cristiane C ThompsonLaboratory of Microbiology, Institute of Biology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cyanobacteria are major contributors to global biogeochemical cycles. The genetic diversity among Cyanobacteria enables them to thrive across many habitats, although only a few studies have analyzed the association of phylogenomic clades to specific environmental niches. In this study, we adopted an ecogenomics strategy with the aim to delineate ecological niche preferences of Cyanobacteria and integrate them to the genomic taxonomy of these bacteria. First, an appropriate phylogenomic framework was established using a set of genomic taxonomy signatures (including a tree based on conserved gene sequences, genome-to-genome distance, and average amino acid identity) to analyse ninety-nine publicly available cyanobacterial genomes. Next, the relative abundances of these genomes were determined throughout diverse global marine and freshwater ecosystems, using metagenomic data sets. The whole-genome-based taxonomy of the ninety-nine genomes allowed us to identify 57 (of which 28 are new genera) and 87 (of which 32 are new species) different cyanobacterial genera and species, respectively. The ecogenomic analysis allowed the distinction of three major ecological groups of Cyanobacteria (named as i. Low Temperature; ii. Low Temperature Copiotroph; and iii. High Temperature Oligotroph) that were coherently linked to the genomic taxonomy. This work establishes a new taxonomic framework for Cyanobacteria in the light of genomic taxonomy and ecogenomic approaches.

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charting biodiversityecological nichesgenome-based microbial taxonomyhigh-throughput sequencing technologymetagenomemicrobial ecology

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PMCPMC5694629

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