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Two cyanobacterial strains, Pseudanabaena sp. 0411 and Synechococcus sp. 0431, were isolated from a sample collected in the Kotel’nikovskii hot spring of the Baikal rift. According to the results of light and transmission electron microscopy, as well as of the phylogenetic analysis of the 16S rRNA gene, these cyanobacteria were classified as Pseudanabaena sp. nov. and Synechococcus bigranulatus Skuja. The constructed phylogenetic tree shows that the studied strains are positioned in the clades of cyanobacteria isolated from hydrothermal vents of Asia and New Zealand, separately from marine and freshwater members of these genera, including those isolated from Lake Baikal.
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Original Russian Text © E.G. Sorokovikova, I.V. Tikhonova, O.I. Belykh, I.V. Klimenkov, E.V. Likhoshwai, 2008, published in Mikrobiologiya, 2008, Vol. 77, No. 3, pp. 412–420.
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Sorokovikova, E.G., Tikhonova, I.V., Belykh, O.I. et al. Identification of two cyanobacterial strains isolated from the Kotel’nikovskii hot spring of the Baikal rift. Microbiology 77, 365–372 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1134/S002626170803017X
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