Microbial Community of Saline, Alkaline Lakes in the Nebraska Sandhills Based on 16S rRNA Gene Amplicon Sequence Data

Authors

Nicole A. Fiore, University of Nebraska—LincolnFollow
David D. Dunigan, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Julie J. Shaffer, University of Nebraska at KearneyFollow
Ryan Roberts, University of Nebraska—Lincoln & Texas A&M University
Sanjay Antony-Babu, University of Nebraska—Lincoln & Texas A&M University
Bradley A. Plantz, University of Nebraska—Lincoln
Kenneth W. Nickerson, University of Nebraska—LincolnFollow
Andrew K. Benson, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
Karrie A. Weber, University of Nebraska—LincolnFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

3-21-2019

Citation

Fiore NA, Dunigan DD, Shaffer JJ, Roberts R, Antony-Babu S, Plantz BA, Nickerson KW, Benson AK, Weber KA. 2019. Microbial community of saline, alkaline lakes in the Nebraska Sandhills based on 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequence data. Microbiol Resour Announc 8:e00063-19. https://doi.org/10.1128/ MRA.00063-19.

Comments

2019 Fiore et al. This is an openaccess article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

Abstract

The Nebraska Sandhills region contains over 1,500 geochemically diverse interdunal lakes, some of which are potassium rich, alkaline, and hypersaline. Here, we report 16S rRNA amplicon pyrosequencing data on the water and sediment microbial communities of eight alkaline lakes in the Sandhills of western Nebraska.