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Ecogenomics and taxonomy of Cyanobacteria phylum
Walter, J.M.; Coutinho, F.H.; Dutilh, B.E.; Swings, J.; Thompson, F.L.; Thompson, C. (2017). Ecogenomics and taxonomy of Cyanobacteria phylum. Front. Microbiol. 8: 2132. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02132
In: Frontiers in Microbiology. Frontiers Media: Lausanne. ISSN 1664-302X; e-ISSN 1664-302X, more
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Author keywords
    microbial ecology; ecological niches; charting biodiversity;genome-based microbial taxonomy; metagenome; high-throughput sequencingtechnology

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  • Walter, J.M.
  • Coutinho, F.H.
  • Dutilh, B.E.
  • Swings, J., more
  • Thompson, F.L., more
  • Thompson, C.

Abstract
    Cyanobacteria are major contributors to global biogeochemical cycles. The genetic diversity among Cyanobacteria enables them to thrive across many habitats, although only a few studies have analyzed the association of phylogenomic clades to specific environmental niches. In this study, we adopted an ecogenomics strategy with the aim to delineate ecological niche preferences of Cyanobacteria and integrate them to the genomic taxonomy of these bacteria. First, an appropriate phylogenomic framework was established using a set of genomic taxonomy signatures (including a tree based on conserved gene sequences, genome-to-genome distance, and average amino acid identity) to analyse ninety-nine publicly available cyanobacterial genomes. Next, the relative abundances of these genomes were determined throughout diverse global marine and freshwater ecosystems, using metagenomic data sets. The whole-genome-based taxonomy of the ninety-nine genomes allowed us to identify 57 (of which 28 are new genera) and 87 (of which 32 are new species) different cyanobacterial genera and species, respectively. The ecogenomic analysis allowed the distinction of three major ecological groups of Cyanobacteria (named as i. Low Temperature; ii. Low Temperature Copiotroph; and iii. High Temperature Oligotroph) that were coherently linked to the genomic taxonomy. This work establishes a new taxonomic framework for Cyanobacteria in the light of genomic taxonomy and ecogenomic approaches.

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