TY  - JOUR
A1  - Alexyuk, Madina
A1  - Bogoyavlenskiy, Andrey
A1  - Alexyuk, Pavel
A1  - Moldakhanov, Yergali
A1  - Berezin, Vladimir
A1  - Digel, Ilya
T1  - Epipelagic microbiome of the Small Aral Sea: Metagenomic structure and ecological diversity
T2  - MicrobiologyOpen
N2  - Microbial diversity studies regarding the aquatic communities that experienced or are experiencing environmental problems are essential for the comprehension of the remediation dynamics. In this pilot study, we present data on the phylogenetic and ecological structure of microorganisms from epipelagic water samples collected in the Small Aral Sea (SAS). The raw data were generated by massive parallel sequencing using the shotgun approach. As expected, most of the identified DNA sequences belonged to Terrabacteria and Actinobacteria (40% and 37% of the total reads, respectively). The occurrence of Deinococcus-Thermus, Armatimonadetes, Chloroflexi in the epipelagic SAS waters was less anticipated. Surprising was also the detection of sequences, which are characteristic for strict anaerobes—Ignavibacteria, hydrogen-oxidizing bacteria, and archaeal methanogenic species. We suppose that the observed very broad range of phylogenetic and ecological features displayed by the SAS reads demonstrates a more intensive mixing of water masses originating from diverse ecological niches of the Aral-Syr Darya River basin than presumed before.
KW  - ecological structure
KW  - metagenomics
KW  - microbial diversity
KW  - shotgun sequencing
KW  - Small Aral Sea
Y1  - 2021
UR  - https://opus.bibliothek.fh-aachen.de/opus4/frontdoor/index/index/docId/9710
SN  - 2045-8827
VL  - 10
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Weinheim
ER  -