Diversity of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs and rhodopsin-containing bacteria in the surface microlayer, water column and epilithic biofilms of lake baikal

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The diversity of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs (AAPs) and rhodopsin-containing bacteria in the surface microlayer, water column, and epilithic biofilms of Lake Baikal was studied for the first time, employing pufM and rhodopsin genes, and compared to 16S rRNA diversity. We detected pufM-containing Alphaproteobacteria (orders Rhodobacterales, Rhizobiales, Rhodospiril-lales, and Sphingomonadales), Betaproteobacteria (order Burkholderiales), Gemmatimonadetes, and Planctomycetes. Rhodobacterales dominated all the studied biotopes. The diversity of rhodop-sin-containing bacteria in neuston and plankton of Lake Baikal was comparable to other studied water bodies. Bacteroidetes along with Proteobacteria were the prevailing phyla, and Verrucomi-crobia and Planctomycetes were also detected. The number of rhodopsin sequences unclassified to the phylum level was rather high: 29% in the water microbiomes and 22% in the epilithon. Diversity of rhodopsin-containing bacteria in epilithic biofilms was comparable with that in neuston and plankton at the phyla level. Unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean (UPGMA) and non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) analysis indicated a distinct discrepancy between ep-ilithon and microbial communities of water (including neuston and plankton) in the 16S rRNA, pufM and rhodopsin genes.

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Galachyants, A. D., Krasnopeev, A. Y., Podlesnaya, G. V., Potapov, S. A., Sukhanova, E. V., Tikhonova, I. V., … Belykh, O. I. (2021). Diversity of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs and rhodopsin-containing bacteria in the surface microlayer, water column and epilithic biofilms of lake baikal. Microorganisms, 9(4). https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9040842

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