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ArticleMicroorganisms2021

Diversity of Microorganisms in Biocrusts Surrounding Highly Saline Potash Tailing Piles in Germany.

Ekaterina Pushkareva, Veronika Sommer, Israel Barrantes, Ulf Karsten

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Article in Microorganisms, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ekaterina PushkarevaDepartment of Applied Ecology and Phycology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rostock, 18059 Rostock, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7200-1681
Veronika SommerDepartment of Applied Ecology and Phycology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rostock, 18059 Rostock, Germany.
Israel BarrantesResearch Group Translational Bioinformatics, Institute for Biostatistics and Informatics in Medicine and Ageing Research, Rostock University Medical Center, 18057 Rostock, Germany.
Ulf KarstenDepartment of Applied Ecology and Phycology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Rostock, 18059 Rostock, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2955-0757
University of Rostock · DEUniversity of Cologne · DE

Funding

Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt 20016/462
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Potash tailing piles located in Germany represent extremely hypersaline locations that negatively affect neighbouring environments and limit the development of higher vegetation. However, biocrusts, as cryptogamic covers, inhabit some of these areas and provide essential ecological functions, but, nevertheless, they remain poorly described. Here, we applied high-throughput sequencing (HTS) and targeted four groups of microorganisms: bacteria, cyanobacteria, fungi and other eukaryotes. The sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene revealed the dominance of Proteobacteria, Cyanobacteria and Actinobacteria. Additionally, we applied yanobacteria-specific primers for a detailed assessment of the cyanobacterial community, which was dominated by members of the filamentous orders Synechococcales and Oscillatoriales. Furthermore, the majority of reads in the studied biocrusts obtained by sequencing of the 18S rRNA gene belonged to eukaryotic microalgae. In addition, sequencing of the internal rDNA transcribed spacer region (ITS) showed the dominance of Ascomycota within the fungal community. Overall, these molecular data provided the first detailed overview of microorganisms associated with biocrusts inhabiting highly saline potash tailing piles and showed the dissimilarities in microbial diversity among the samples.

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biocrustsdiversityhigh-throughput sequencingmicroorganismspotash mining

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PMID33808463
PMCPMC8066527
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