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: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
• Subjects: Microbiology; Antarctic; Organic Lake; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8204192/; https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.674758

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 chara...