Genome Analysis of a Verrucomicrobial Endosymbiont With a Tiny Genome Discovered in an Antarctic Lake

• Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology
• Main Authors: Williams, Timothy J., Allen, Michelle A., Ivanova, Natalia, Huntemann, Marcel, Haque, Sabrina, Hancock, Alyce M., Brazendale, Sarah, Cavicchioli, Ricardo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2021
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.674758; https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2021.674758/full

Organic Lake in Antarctica is a marine-derived, cold (−13∘C), stratified (oxic-anoxic), hypersaline (>200 gl –1 ) system with unusual chemistry (very high levels of dimethylsulfide) that supports the growth of phylogenetically and metabolically diverse microorganisms. Symbionts are not well c...