Bacterial Microbiota Associated with the Glacier Ice Worm Is Dominated by Both Worm-Specific and Glacier-Derived Facultative Lineages

• Published in: Microbes and environments
• Main Authors: Murakami, Takumi, Segawa, Takahiro, Dial, Roman, Takeuchi, Nozomu, Kohshima, Shiro, Hongoh, Yuichi
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: the Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology (JSME)/the Japanese Society of Soil Microbiology (JSSM)/the Taiwan Society of Microbial Ecology (TSME)/the Japanese Society of Plant Microbe Interactions (JSPMI) 2017
• Subjects: Articles; Harding; glacier; glaciers; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5371072/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28302989; https://doi.org/10.1264/jsme2.ME16158

The community structure of bacteria associated with the glacier ice worm Mesenchytraeus solifugus was analyzed by amplicon sequencing of 16S rRNA genes and their transcripts. Ice worms were collected from two distinct glaciers in Alaska, Harding Icefield and Byron Glacier, and glacier surfaces were...