Unveiling microbial life in new deep‐sea hypersaline Lake <i>Thetis</i> . Part I: Prokaryotes and environmental settings

La Cono, Violetta; Smedile, Francesco; Bortoluzzi, Giovanni; Arcadi, Erika; Maimone, Giovanna; Messina, Enzo; Borghini, Mireno; Oliveri, Elvira; Mazzola, Salvatore; L'Haridon, Stephan; M.A.A. Toffin, Laurent; Genovese, Lucrezia; Ferrer, Manuel; Giuliano, Laura; N. Golyshin, Peter; M. Yakimov, Michail

doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02478.x

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Unveiling microbial life in new deep‐sea hypersaline Lake Thetis . Part I: Prokaryotes and environmental settings

Published in Environmental Microbiology • Apr 25, 2011

Authors:

Violetta La Cono

Francesco Smedile

Giovanni Bortoluzzi

Abstract

In September 2008, an expedition of the RV Urania was devoted to exploration of the genomic richness of deep hypersaline anoxic lakes (DHALs) located in the Western part of the Mediterranean Ridge. Approximately 40 nautical miles SE from Urania Lake, the presence of anoxic hypersaline lake, which we...

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Chemocline

Anoxic waters

Halophile

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