Abstract

LANDONE VESCOVO, Ignacio A et al. Una rica colección de bacterias marinas antárticas (Caleta Potter, islas Shetlands del Sur) revela diversos filotipos endémicos y previamente no descritos. Rev. argent. microbiol. [online]. 2014, vol.46, n.3, pp.218-230. ISSN 0325-7541.

^les^len^aBacterial richness in maritime Antarctica has been poorly described to date. Phylogenetic affiliation of seawater free-living microbial assemblages was studied from three locations near the Argentinean Jubany Station during two Antarctic summers. Sixty 16S RNA cloned sequences were phylogenetically affiliated to Alphaproteobacteria (30/60 clones), Gammaproteobacteria(19/60 clones), Betaproteobacteria and Cytophaga-Flavobacteriia- Bacteroides (CFB), which were (2/60) and (3/60) respectively. Furthermore, six out of 60 clones could not be classified. Both, Alphaproteobacteria and Gammaproteobacteria, showed several endemic and previously undescribed sequences. Moreover, the absence of Cyanobacteria sequences in our samples is remarkable. In conclusion, we are reporting a rich sequence assemblage composed of widely divergent isolates among themselves and distant from the most closely related sequences currently deposited in data banks.

Keywords : Colecciones bacterianas; Afiliación filogenética; Antártica.

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