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Isolation, Propagation, and Identification of Bacterial Species with Hydrocarbon Metabolizing Properties from Aquatic Habitats
Published on: December 7, 2021
Molecular bacterial diversity and distribution in waste from a steel plant
Dulcecleide B Freitas1, Mariana P Reis, Leandro M Freitas
1Departamento de Biologia Geral, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Abstract:
We characterized the bacterial diversity of newly produced steelmaking wastes (NPSW) and steelmaking wastes deposited (SWD) in a restricted land area, generated by the siderurgic industry, using the 16S rDNA clone library approach. A total of 212 partial-length sequences were analyzed, revealing 123 distinct operational taxonomic units (OTUs) determined by the DOTUR program to 97% sequence similarity. Phylogenetic analysis of bacterial 16S rDNA sequences from the NPSW and SWD libraries demonstrated that Gammaproteobacteria, Betaproteobacteria, Alphaproteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Planctomycetes, Firmicutes, and Bacteroidetes were represented in both libraries. Deltaproteobacteria, Acidobacteria, Chloroflexi, Deinococcus-thermus, Gemmatimonadetes, and candidate divisions OP10 and OD1 were only present in the SWD library, and Nitrospira was only present in the NPSW library. The abundance of sequences affiliated with Gammaproteobacteria was high in both libraries. Six previously unclassified OTUs may represent novel taxa. Based on diversity indices (Simpson, Shannon-Weaver, Chao1, and ACE), the SWD library had a higher diversity. LIBSHUFF comparisons of the composition of the 2 libraries showed that they were significantly different. These results indicate that the bacterial communities in steelmaking wastes present high phylogenetic diversity and complexity. A possible association between the functional diversity and the bacterial communities' complexity requires further phenotypic investigation.
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