Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, KFU
KAZAN
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY
 
TAXONOMIC DIVERSITY OF THE MICROBIAL BIOFILMS COLLECTED ALONG THE THERMAL STREAMS ON KUNASHIR ISLAND
Form of presentationArticles in international journals and collections
Year of publication2023
Языканглийский
  • Polyakova Elena Yurevna, author
  • Bibliographic description in the original language Malygina ABalkin APolyakova EStefanov SPotekhin AGogoleva N. Taxonomic Diversity of the Microbial Biofilms Collected along the Thermal Streams on Kunashir Island. Ecologies (2023) 4(1) 106-123
    Annotation Hot springs are known as highly adverse extreme environments where thermophilic and hyperthermophilic microorganisms can survive. We describe taxonomic diversity of several microbial biofilms collected along water temperature gradient in hot streams in the aquatic system of the Stolbovskie hot springs on Kunashir Island, Kurils, Russia. The taxonomic composition of the studied microbial communities was assessed by the 16S rRNA gene metabarcoding for bacteria and archaea, and by the 18S rRNA gene metabarcoding for protists. Richness and diversity of bacteria in the geothermal microbial communities decreased with the increase of temperature, while for archaea, the tendency was the opposite. Ciliophora was the most represented taxon of protists. The biofilms of various kinds that we found in a very local area of the geothermal system were different from each other by taxonomic composition, and the level of their taxonomic diversity was significantly influenced by water temperature.
    Keywords Kurils; hot springs; microbial communities; metabarcoding; 16S rRNA; 18S rRNA; thermophiles; ciliates
    The name of the journal Ecologica Montenegrina
    URL https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4133/4/1/9
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