PExtremophilic taxa predominate in a microbial community of photovoltaic panels in a tropical region/P

Photovoltaic panels can be colonized by a highly diverse microbial diversity, despite life-threatening conditions. Although they are distributed worldwide, the microorganisms living on their surfaces have never been profiled in tropical regions using 16S rRNA high-throughput sequencing and PICRUst m...

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Published in:FEMS microbiology letters 2021-08, Vol.368 (16), p.1
Main Authors: Moura, Juliane B, Delforno, Tiago P, Prado, Pierre F. do, Duarte, Iolanda C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Computational biology
Extremophiles
Genetic aspects
Identification and classification
Methods
RNA sequencing
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Summary:Photovoltaic panels can be colonized by a highly diverse microbial diversity, despite life-threatening conditions. Although they are distributed worldwide, the microorganisms living on their surfaces have never been profiled in tropical regions using 16S rRNA high-throughput sequencing and PICRUst metagenome prediction of functional content. In this work, we investigated photovoltaic panels from two cities in southeast Brazil, Sorocaba and Itatiba, using these bioinformatics approach. Results showed that, despite significant differences in microbial diversity (p < 0.001), the taxonomic profile was very similar for both photovoltaic panels, dominated mainly by Proteobacteria, Bacteroidota and lower amounts of Cyanobacteria phyla. A predominance of Hymenobacter and Methylobacterium-Methylorubrum was observed at the genus level. We identified a microbial common core composed of Hymenobacter, Deinococcus, Sphingomonas,
ISSN:0378-1097
1574-6968
DOI:10.1093/femsle/fnabl05