Two metagenomes from late pleistocene northeast siberian permafrost

Kirill Krivushin; Fyodor Kondrashov; Lyubov Shmakova; Mariya Tutukina; Lada Petrovskaya; Elizaveta Rivkina

doi:10.1128/genomeA.01380-14

Two metagenomes from late pleistocene northeast siberian permafrost

Genome Announc. 2015 Jan 2;3(1):e01380-14. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.01380-14.

Authors

Kirill Krivushin¹, Fyodor Kondrashov², Lyubov Shmakova¹, Mariya Tutukina³, Lada Petrovskaya⁴, Elizaveta Rivkina⁵

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia.
² Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), and Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.
³ Institute of Cell Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia.
⁴ Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
⁵ Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia elizaveta.rivkina@gmail.com.

Abstract

The present study reports metagenomic shotgun sequencing of microbial communities of two ancient permafrost horizons of the Russian Arctic. Results demonstrate a significant difference in microbial community structure of the analyzed samples in general and microorganisms of the methane cycle in particular.