Microbial Community of Saline, Alkaline Lakes in the Nebraska Sandhills Based on 16S rRNA Gene Amplicon Sequence Data

Nicole A Fiore; David D Dunigan; Julie J Shaffer; Ryan Roberts; Sanjay Antony-Babu; Bradley A Plantz; Kenneth W Nickerson; Andrew K Benson; Karrie A Weber

doi:10.1128/MRA.00063-19

Microbial Community of Saline, Alkaline Lakes in the Nebraska Sandhills Based on 16S rRNA Gene Amplicon Sequence Data

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Mar 21;8(12):e00063-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00063-19.

Authors

Nicole A Fiore¹, David D Dunigan^{2

3}, Julie J Shaffer⁴, Ryan Roberts⁵, Sanjay Antony-Babu¹, Bradley A Plantz¹, Kenneth W Nickerson¹, Andrew K Benson⁶, Karrie A Weber^{7

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Affiliations

¹ School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
² Department of Plant Pathology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
³ Nebraska Center for Virology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
⁴ Department of Biology, University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney, Nebraska, USA.
⁵ Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
⁶ Department of Food Science and Technology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
⁷ School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA kweber@unl.edu.
⁸ Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
⁹ Daughtery Water for Food Institute, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.

Abstract

The Nebraska Sandhills region contains over 1,500 geochemically diverse interdunal lakes, some of which are potassium rich, alkaline, and hypersaline. Here, we report 16S rRNA amplicon pyrosequencing data on the water and sediment microbial communities of eight alkaline lakes in the Sandhills of western Nebraska.

Grants and funding

P20 GM103427/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States