%0 Journal Article
%T Antarctic Cyanobacteria Biodiversity Based on ITS and <i>Trn</i>L Sequencing and Its Ecological Implication
%A Carla Micheli
%A Rossella Cianchi
%A Raffaella Paperi
%A Alessandro Belmonte
%A Benjamin Pushparaj
%J Open Journal of Ecology
%P 456-467
%@ 2162-1993
%D 2014
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/oje.2014.48039
%X <p style=\"text-align:justify;\">
	<span style=\"font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;font-family:Verdana;\">Antarctic
cyanobacteria biodiversity was investigated by simultaneous sequencing of </span><span style=\"font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;font-family:Verdana;\">the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS </span><span style=\"font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;font-family:Verdana;\">flanked by partial 16S and 23S)</span><span style=\"font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;font-family:Verdana;\">, and Chloroplast </span><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:102%;font-family:;\" \"=\"\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;\">tRNA</span><sup><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;\">Leu</span></sup><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;\"> UAA</span></span><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:102%;font-family:;\" \"=\"\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;\"> intron (</span><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;\">Trn</span></i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;\">L),
exploring whether such morphotypes constitute distinct species and explaining
their current distribution</span></span><span style=\"font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;font-family:Verdana;\">. </span><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:102%;font-family:;\" \"=\"\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;\">We identified </span><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;\">Nostocales</span></i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;\">,</span><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;\"> Chrococcales</span></i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;\"> and</span><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;\"> Oscillatoriales</span></i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;\"> species,</span></span><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:102%;font-family:;\" \"=\"\"> </span><span style=\"font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;font-family:Verdana;\">collected in different habitats (soil, algal
mats, lake sediments, ice-water) after their growth in cultures. B</span><span style=\"font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;font-family:Verdana;\">y c</span><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;line-height:102%;font-family:;\" \"=\"\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;font-size:12px;line-height:1.5;\">omparative sequence
analyses available in Genbank, our results
%K Antarctic Cyanobacteria
%K Biodiversity
%K ITS
%K tRNALeu UAA
%K Secondary Structure
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