Artículo
The Santa Pola saltern as a model for studying the microbiota of hypersaline environments
Autor/es | Ventosa Ucero, Antonio
Fernández, Ana Beatriz León León, María José Sánchez-Porro Álvarez, Cristina Rodríguez Valera, Francisco |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Microbiología y Parasitología |
Fecha de publicación | 2014-09-01 |
Fecha de depósito | 2024-09-24 |
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Resumen | Multi-pond salterns constitute an excellent model for the study of the microbial diversity and ecology of hypersaline environments, showing a wide range of salt concentrations, from seawater to salt saturation. Accumulated ... Multi-pond salterns constitute an excellent model for the study of the microbial diversity and ecology of hypersaline environments, showing a wide range of salt concentrations, from seawater to salt saturation. Accumulated studies on the Santa Pola (Alicante, Spain) multi-pond solar saltern during the last 35 years include culture-dependent and culture-independent molecular methods and metagenomics more recently. These approaches have permitted to determine in depth the microbial diversity of the ponds with intermediate salinities (from 10 % salts) up to salt saturation, with haloarchaea and bacteria as the two main dominant groups. In this review, we describe the main results obtained using the different methodologies, the most relevant contributions for understanding the ecology of these extreme environments and the future perspectives for such studies. |
Agencias financiadoras | Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICIN). España National Science Foundation European Commission (EC) Generalitat Valenciana Junta de Andalucía |
Identificador del proyecto | CGL2013-46941-P
CGL2010-19303 CGL2009-12651-C02-01 BIO2011-12879-E BIO2008-02444 CDS2009-00006 DEB-0919290 311975 DIMEGEN PROMETEO/2010/089 ACOMP/2009/155 P10-CVI-6226 |
Cita | Ventosa Ucero, A., Fernández, A.B., León León, M.J., Sánchez-Porro Álvarez, C. y Rodríguez Valera, F. (2014). The Santa Pola saltern as a model for studying the microbiota of hypersaline environments. Extremophiles, 18 (5), 811-824. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00792-014-0681-6. |
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