Diversity and physiology of polyhydroxyalkanoate-producing and-degrading strains in microbial mats

Abstract

Photosynthetic microbial mats are sources of microbial diversity and physiological strategies that regulate biogeochemical cycles. In this study, microbial diversity was surveyed at a hypersaline mat from the Ebro Delta (NE Spain) along a salinity gradient from brackish to hypersaline conditions, using clone libraries of the 16S rRNA gene and the 18S rRNA gene.

Javier del Campo

Group Leader

My research aims at understanding the global diversity and distribution of eukaryotic and prokaryotic microbes employing curated phylogenetic frameworks focusing on novel environmental taxa.