Metagenome-assembled genomes provide new insight into the microbial diversity of two thermal pools in Kamchatka, Russia

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Wilkins, Laetitia G. E., Ettinger, Cassandra L., Jospin, Guillaume, Eisen, Jonathan A.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
• Subjects: Article; Kamchatka Peninsula; Kamchatka
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6395817/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30816235; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39576-6

Culture-independent methods have contributed substantially to our understanding of global microbial diversity. Recently developed algorithms to construct whole genomes from environmental samples have further refined, corrected and revolutionized understanding of the tree of life. Here, we assembled...