Metagenome of the Siberian Underground Water Reservoir

Vitaly V Kadnikov; Yulia A Frank; Andrey V Mardanov; Alexey V Beletsky; Olga V Karnachuk; Nikolai V Ravin

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01317-17

Metagenome of the Siberian Underground Water Reservoir

Genome Announc. 2017 Nov 22;5(47):e01317-17. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01317-17.

Authors

Vitaly V Kadnikov^{1

2}, Yulia A Frank³, Andrey V Mardanov², Alexey V Beletsky², Olga V Karnachuk³, Nikolai V Ravin^{4

2}

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
² Institute of Bioengineering, Research Center of Biotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
³ Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia.
⁴ Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia nravin@biengi.ac.ru.

Abstract

We report on the metagenome of a deep subsurface aquifer in the Tomsk region of Russia, sampled via an oil exploration borehole drilled to a depth of 2.8 km. Methanogenic archaea were present in the water along with members of various bacterial phyla, including Firmicutes, Chloroflexi, Bacteroidetes, Ignavibacteriae, and uncultured candidate divisions.