16S rRNA Gene Diversity in Ancient Gray and Pink Salt from San Simón Salt Mines in Tarija, Bolivia

Wolf T Pecher; Fabiana L Martínez; Priya DasSarma; Daniel Guzmán; Shiladitya DasSarma

doi:10.1128/MRA.00820-20

16S rRNA Gene Diversity in Ancient Gray and Pink Salt from San Simón Salt Mines in Tarija, Bolivia

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Oct 8;9(41):e00820-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00820-20.

Authors

Wolf T Pecher^{1

2

3}, Fabiana L Martínez^{1

2

4}, Priya DasSarma^{1

2}, Daniel Guzmán⁵, Shiladitya DasSarma^{6

2}

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
² Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
³ Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences, University of Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
⁴ Instituto de Investigaciones para la Industria Química, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad Nacional de Salta, Salta, Argentina.
⁵ Centro de Biotecnología, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
⁶ Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA sdassarma@som.umaryland.edu.

Abstract

DNA from 250 million-year-old pink and gray salts from mines in Tarija, Bolivia, subjected to 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing and analysis provided evidence for similar but distinct prokaryotic communities. The results constitute a snapshot of archaeal and bacterial microorganisms in these remote and ancient salt deposits.

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