Igor S Pessi, Rafael V Popin, Benoit Durieu, Yannick Lara, Bjorn Tytgat, Valentina Savaglia, Beatriz Roncero-Ramos, Jenni Hultman, Elie Verleyen, Wim Vyverman, Annick Wilmotte
Benthic microbial mats dominated by Cyanobacteria are important features of polar lakes. Although culture-independent studies have provided important insights into the diversity of polar Cyanobacteria, only a handful of genomes have been sequenced to date. Here, we applied a genome-resolved metagenomics approach to data obtained from Arctic, sub-Antarctic and Antarctic microbial mats. We recovered 37 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) of Cyanobacteria representing 17 distinct species, most of which are only distantly related to genomes that have been sequenced so far...
July 2023: Microbial Genomics