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Depth distribution of microbial diversity in Mono Lake, a meromictic soda lake in California.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Feb 2003
Humayoun Shaheen B, Bano Nasreen, Hollibaugh James T
Abstract excerpt
We analyzed the variation with depth in the composition of members of the domain Bacteria in samples from alkaline, hypersaline, and currently meromictic Mono Lake in California. DNA samples were collected from the mixolimnion (2 m), the base of the oxycline (17.5 m), the upper chemocline (23 m), and the monimolimnion (35 m). Composition was assessed by sequencing randomly selected cloned fragments of 16S rRNA...
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