Cyanobacterial life at low O 2 : community genomics and function reveal metabolic versatility and extremely low diversity in a Great Lakes sinkhole mat

• Published in: Geobiology
• Main Authors: Voorhies, A. A., Biddanda, B. A., Kendall, S. T., Jain, S., Marcus, D. N., Nold, S. C., Sheldon, Nathan D., Dick, G. J.
• Other Authors: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Deptartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Biology Department, University of Wisconsin‐Stout, Menomonie, WI, USA, Annis Water Resources Institute, Grand Valley State University, Muskegon, MI, USA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2012
• Subjects: Geology and Earth Sciences; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Science; Middle Island; Polar Biology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/90535; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1472-4669.2012.00322.x

Cyanobacteria are renowned as the mediators of Earth’s oxygenation. However, little is known about the cyanobacterial communities that flourished under the low‐O 2 conditions that characterized most of their evolutionary history. Microbial mats in the submerged Middle Island Sinkhole of Lake Huron p...