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Molecular identification of filterable bacteria and archaea in the water of acidic lakes of northern Russia

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Wetland ecosystems are the natural centers of freshwater formation in northern Russia lowland landscapes. The humic acidic waters formed in bogs feed the numerous lakes of the northern regions. One milliliter of the water in these lakes contains up to 104 ultrasmall microbial cells that pass through “bacterial” filters with a pore size of 0.22 μm. The vast majority of these cells do not grow on nutrient media and cannot be identified by routine cultivation-based approaches. Their identification was performed by analysis of clone libraries obtained by PCR amplification of archaeal and bacterial 16S rRNA genes from the fraction of cells collected from water filtrates of acidic lakes. Most of the obtained bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequences represented the class Betaproteobacteria and exhibited the highest homology of (94–99%) with 16S rRNA genes of representatives of the genera Herbaspirillum, Herminiimonas, Curvibacter, and Burkholderia. The archaeal 16S rRNA gene clone library comprised genes of Euryarchaeota representatives. One-third of these genes exhibited 97–99% homology to the 16S rRNA genes of taxonomically described organisms of the orders Methanobacteriales and Methanosarcinales. The rest of the cloned archaeal 16S rRNA genes were only distantly related (71–74% homology) to those in all earlier characterized archaea.

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    A. V. Fedotova, S. E. Belova, I. S. Kulichevskaya & S. N. Dedysh

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Fedotova, S.E. Belova, I.S. Kulichevskaya, S.N. Dedysh, 2012, published in Mikrobiologiya, 2012, Vol. 81, No. 3, pp. 306–313.

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Fedotova, A.V., Belova, S.E., Kulichevskaya, I.S. et al. Molecular identification of filterable bacteria and archaea in the water of acidic lakes of northern Russia. Microbiology 81, 281–287 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S002626171203006X

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