Metagenomic analysis reveals that modern microbialites and polar microbial mats have similar taxonomic and functional potential

• Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology
• Main Authors: White, Richard Allen, Power, Ian M., Dipple, Gregory M., Southam, Gordon, Suttle, Curtis A.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
• Subjects: Microbiology; Arctic; Canada; Clinton Creek; Yukon; Antarc*; Antarctica; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4585152/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26441900; https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.00966

Within the subarctic climate of Clinton Creek, Yukon, Canada, lies an abandoned and flooded open-pit asbestos mine that harbors rapidly growing microbialites. To understand their formation we completed a metagenomic community profile of the microbialites and their surrounding sediments. Assembled me...