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- Title
Diversity of microorganisms in solar salterns of Tamil Nadu, India.
- Authors
Muthu Manikandan; Vijayaraghavan Kannan; Lejla Pašić
- Abstract
Abstract In this study, the diversity of prokaryotes inhabiting crystallizer ponds of three solar salterns, located along Bengal Bay in Tamil Nadu, India was examined. Unlike other salterns studied the Tamil Nadu salterns are fed by hypersaline spring water mixed with seawater and led to the ponds from bore wells. In addition, prokaryotic community development is restricted as salterns operate only during the arid part of the year. Both culture-based and culture-independent polymerase chain reaction 16S rRNA molecular phylogenetic approaches were employed. Representatives of the family Halobacteriaceae dominated in cultivable portion of diversity encountered with members of genera Haloferax, Halorubrum, Haloarcula, Halobacterium and Halogeometricum recovered in pure culture. In contrast, members of Bacteria were recovered from only one sampling site and were represented by members of genera Salinibacter, Cytophaga and Marinococcus. Based on culture-independent sampling, the predominant members of the haloarchaeal crystallizer community belonged to the genus Natrinema.
- Subjects
TAMIL Nadu (India); INDIA; MICROBIAL diversity; SOLAR ponds; SALT pans (Geology); MICROORGANISMS; POLYMERASE chain reaction; RNA; MOLECULAR phylogeny
- Publication
World Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology, 2009, Vol 25, Issue 6, p1007
- ISSN
0959-3993
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11274-009-9980-y