The Tibetan Plateau in Northwest China hosts a number of hot springs that represent a
biodiversity hotspot for thermophiles, yet their diversity and relationship to environmental …

Culture-independent methods have contributed substantially to our understanding of global
microbial diversity. Recently developed algorithms to construct whole genomes from …

Uncultured microorganisms represent a significant part of the Earth's biodiversity. Natural
ecosystems contain less than 0.1–1% of the microorganisms that can be cultured by …

Abstract Microbial communities of Kamchatka Peninsula terrestrial hot springs were studied
using molecular, radioisotopic and cultural approaches. Analysis of 16S rRNA gene …

Bacterial communities of the water and the biofilm formed during five years on an artificial
substrate in Lake Baikal were studied by the pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA gene fragments; …

Microbial communities of the Kamchatka Peninsula terrestrial hot springs were studied using
radioisotopic and cultural approaches, as well as by the amplification and sequencing of …

This report describes the biodiversity and ecology of microbial mats developed in thermal
gradients (20 to 65° C) in the surroundings of three drillings (Chiraleu [CH], Ciocaia [CI], and …

The sub-ice environment of Lake Baikal represents a special ecotope where strongly
increasing microbial biomass causes an “ice-bloom” contributing therefore to the ecosystem …

Bourlyashchy is the largest and hottest pool in the Uzon Caldera, located in the territory of
Kronotsky Nature Reserve, Kamchatka, Russia, with sediment surface temperatures at the …

Abstract Characterization of hot spring microbiota is useful as an initial platform for exploring
industrially important microbes. The present study focused on characterization of microbiota …