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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 2008, p. 6444-6446, Vol. 74, No. 20
0099-2240/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.00879-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Comparative Molecular Analysis of Endoevaporitic Microbial Communities{triangledown} ,{dagger}

Jason W. Sahl,1 Norman R. Pace,2 and John R. Spear1*

Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401,1 Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 803092

Received 17 April 2008/ Accepted 14 August 2008

A phylogenetic comparison of microbial communities in hypersaline evaporites was conducted on crusts from Guerrero Negro, Mexico, and Lindsey Lake, New Mexico, using culture-independent rRNA gene sequence analysis. Many sequences were shared between evaporites, which suggests that similar environments select for specific microbial lineages from a global metacommunity.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Colorado School of Mines, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, 1500 Illinois St., Coolbaugh Hall, Golden, CO 80401. Phone: (303) 273-3497. Fax: (303) 273-3413. E-mail: jspear{at}mines.edu

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 29 August 2008.

{dagger} Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://aem.asm.org/.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 2008, p. 6444-6446, Vol. 74, No. 20
0099-2240/08/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.00879-08
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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