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Novelty and spatio-temporal heterogeneity in the bacterial diversity of hypersaline Lake Tebenquiche (Salar de Atacama).
Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions - 1 Jul 2008
Demergasso Cecilia, Escudero Lorena, Casamayor Emilio O, Chong Guillermo, Balagué Vanessa, Pedrós-Alió Carlos
Abstract excerpt
Lake Tebenquiche is one of the largest saline water bodies in the Salar de Atacama at 2,500 m above sea level in northeastern Chile. Bacteria inhabiting there have to deal with extreme changes in salinity, temperature and UV dose (i.e., high environmental dissimilarity in the physical landscape). We analyzed the bacterioplankton structure of this lake by 16S rRNA gene analyses along a spatio-temporal survey. The...
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