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Algo-bacterial communities of the Kulunda steppe (Altai Region, Russia) Soda Lakes

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The composition and macroscopic structure of the floating oxygenic phototrophic communities from Kulunda steppe soda lakes (Cock Soda Lake, Tanatar VI, and Bitter Lake 3) was described based on the data of the 2011 and 2012 expeditions (Winogradsky Institute of Microbiology). The algo-bacterial community with a green alga Ctenocladus circinnatus as an edificator was the typical one. Filamentous Geitlerinema sp. and Nodosilinea sp. were the dominant cyanobacteria. Apart from C. circinnatus, the algological component of the community contained unicellular green algae Dunaliella viridis and cf. Chlorella minutissima, as well as diatoms (Anomoeoneis sphaerophora, Brachysira brebissonii, Brachysira zellensis, Mastogloia pusilla var. subcapitata, Nitzschia amphibia, Nitzschia communis, and Nitzschia sp.1). The latter have not been previously identified in the lakes under study. In all lakes, a considerable increase in salinity was found to result in changes in the composition and macroscopic structure of algo-bacterial communities.

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    O. S. Samylina & D. Yu. Sorokin

  2. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    F. V. Sapozhnikov, O. Yu. Gainanova & A. V. Ryabova

  3. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

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Samylina, O.S., Sapozhnikov, F.V., Gainanova, O.Y. et al. Algo-bacterial communities of the Kulunda steppe (Altai Region, Russia) Soda Lakes. Microbiology 83, 849–860 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0026261714060162

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