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Cyanobacteria in Geothermal Habitats

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Ecology of Cyanobacteria II

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In the last decade advances in high-throughput DNA and RNA sequencing have driven more intensive surveys of cyanobacterial diversity in geothermal systems worldwide and the development of a deeper understanding of well-studied hot spring cyanobacterial communities. As a consequence, it is now possible to build, atop the long-term studies of these systems based on morphological, pure-culture and initial 16S rRNA observations, a more thorough understanding of the biogeographical and local distributions of cyanobacteria in these settings. Population genetics studies with increased molecular, spatial and temporal resolution have begun to define the ecological species populations of thermophilic cyanobacteria and to reveal the processes that drove their evolution and current ecology. Metagenomic studies have begun to reveal the functional gene repertoire of the predominant cyanobacteria and associated members of communities in which they reside and with whom they interact. Gene expression studies, including metatranscritomic studies, have begun to reveal patterns of in situ gene expression.

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Acknowledgements

DMW appreciates the long-term support from the National Science Foundation (most recently from the Frontiers in Integrative Biology Research Program, EF- EF-0328698 and the IGERT Program in Geobiological Systems, DGE 0654336), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (most recently from the Exobiology Program, NAG5-8824, -8807 and NX09AM87G), the Battelle Memorial Institute, Pacific Northwest Division [contract #112443] and the National Park Service personnel at Yellowstone National Park. DMW additionally and gratefully acknowledges collaborators D.A. Bryant and X. Liu and the support of collaborative genomic and metatranscriptomic work from the National Science Foundation (MCB-0523100), Dept. of Energy (DE-FG02-94ER20137) and the Joint Genome Institute. SRM gratefully acknowledges the support of National Science Foundation awards MCB-0354738, MCB0347627 and EF-0801999. RWC gratefully acknowledges the support of the National Science Foundation and NASA over many years of geothermal biological studies.

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  3. Division of Biological Sciences, The University of Montana, Missoula, MT, 59812, USA

    Scott R. Miller

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Ward, D.M., Castenholz, R.W., Miller, S.R. (2012). Cyanobacteria in Geothermal Habitats. In: Whitton, B. (eds) Ecology of Cyanobacteria II. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3855-3_3

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