Molecular Characterization of Prokaryotic Communities Associated with Lonar Crater Basalts

摘要: The Lonar crater is an unusually well-preserved meteorite impact structure that located in one of the largest volcanic provinces on Earth (i.e., Deccan Traps India). diversity endoliths basalts or flood not known. Here, phylogenetic endolithic Bacteria and Archaea inhabiting retrieved from four discrete sampling sites walls lake-bed was assessed using culture-independent molecular methods. Taxonomic classification 16S rRNA gene sequences all basalt samples revealed similarities as well dissimilarities presence absence several prokaryotic taxa. Cluster analysis Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis fingerprints UniFrac clone library suggested substantial variations bacterial archaeal between crater-wall sites. Although affiliated to phyla Actinobacteria, Acidobacteria Chloroflexi were rel...