Metagenomic analysis of concrete bridge reveals a microbial community dominated by halophilic Bacteria and Archaea
E. A. Kiledal, M. Shaw, S. W. Polson, J. A. Maresca
The paper improves DNA extraction from concrete to enable shotgun metagenomic sequencing, revealing a halophilic microbial community dominated by Bacteria and Archaea with osmotic stress-related functions.
bioRxiv · Sep 16, 2022Microbiology