1. Metagenomic analysis of intertidal hypersaline microbial mats from Elkhorn Slough, California, grown with and without molybdate
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Patrik D’haeseleer, Jackson Z. Lee, Leslie Prufert-Bebout, Luke C. Burow, Angela M. Detweiler, Peter K. Weber, Ulas Karaoz, Eoin L. Brodie, Tijana Glavina del Rio, Susannah G. Tringe, Brad M. Bebout, and Jennifer Pett-Ridge
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Microbial mats ,Hydrogen ,Fermentation ,Elkhorn slough ,Metagenomics ,Genetics ,QH426-470 - Abstract
Abstract Cyanobacterial mats are laminated microbial ecosystems which occur in highly diverse environments and which may provide a possible model for early life on Earth. Their ability to produce hydrogen also makes them of interest from a biotechnological and bioenergy perspective. Samples of an intertidal microbial mat from the Elkhorn Slough estuary in Monterey Bay, California, were transplanted to a greenhouse at NASA Ames Research Center to study a 24-h diel cycle, in the presence or absence of molybdate (which inhibits biohydrogen consumption by sulfate reducers). Here, we present metagenomic analyses of four samples that will be used as references for future metatranscriptomic analyses of this diel time series.
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- 2017
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