EcologybioRxivPreprint
Species-level classification provides new insights into the biogeographical patterns of microbial communities in shallow saline lakes
Polina Len, Ayagoz Meirkhanova, Galina Nugumanova…·N. S. Barteneva
The paper uses long-read sequencing to analyze microbial communities in saline lakes, finding that salinity strongly structures bacterial communities and that finer taxonomic classification reveals new insights into biogeographical patterns.