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census: an update. mBio 7(3):e00201–16. doi:10.1128/mBio.00201-16
Sommaruga R, Casamayor EO (2009) Bacterial ‘cosmopolitanism’ and importance of local
environmental factors for community composition in remote high-altitude lakes. Fresh Biol
54:994–1005
Spang A, Saw JH, Jorgensen SL, Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka K, Martijn J, Lind AE et al (2015)
Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Nature 521:173–179
Stoeck T, Breiner HW, Filker S et al (2014) A morpho-genetic diversity survey on ciliate plankton
from a mountain lake pinpoints the necessity of protist barcoding in microbial ecology.
Environ Microbiol 16:430–444
Tolotti M, Forsström L, Morabito G et al (2009) Biogeographical characterization of
phytoplankton assemblages in high altitude, and high latitude European lakes. Adv Limnol
62:55–75
Triadó-Margarit X, Casamayor EO (2012) Genetic diversity of planktonic eukaryotes in high
mountain lakes (Central Pyrenees, Spain). Environ Microbiol 14:2445–2456
Vila-Costa M, Barberan A, Auguet JC, Shalabh S, Moran MA, Casamayor EO (2013) Bacterial
and archaeal community structure in the surface microlayer of high mountain lakes examined
under two atmospheric aerosol loading scenarios. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 84:387–397
Vila-Costa M, Bartrons M, Catalan J, Casamayor EO (2014) Nitrogen cycling genes in epilithic
biofilms of oligotrophic high altitude lakes (Central Pyrenees, Spain). Microbial Ecol 68:60–69
Vila-Costa M, Pulido C, Chappuis E, Casamayor EO, Gacia E (2016) Macrophytes landscape
modulates ecosystem-level nitrogen losses through tightly coupled plant-microbe interactions.
Limnol Oceanogr 61:78–88
Wang J, Meier S, Soininen J, Casamayor EO, Pan F, Yang X, Zhang Y, Wu Q, Zhou J, An Z,
Shen J (2017) Regional and global elevational patterns of microbial species richness and
evennes. Ecography 40:393–402. doi:10.1111/ecog.02216
Wertz S, Degrange V, Prosser JI, Poly F, Commeaux C, Freitag T, Guillaumaud N, Roux XL
(2006) Maintenance of soil functioning following erosion of microbial diversity. Environ
Microbiol 8:2162–2169
Yarza P, Yilmaz P, Pruesse E, Glöckner FO et al (2014) Uniting the classification of cultured and
uncultured bacteria and archaea using 16S rRNA gene sequences. Nat Rev Microbiol 12:635–645
Zhang R, Wu Q, Piceno YM et al (2013) Diversity of bacterioplankton in contrasting Tibetan lakes
revealed by high-density microarray and clone library analysis. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 86:
277–287
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census: an update. mBio 7(3):e00201–16. doi:10.1128/mBio.00201-16
Sommaruga R, Casamayor EO (2009) Bacterial ‘cosmopolitanism’ and importance of local
environmental factors for community composition in remote high-altitude lakes. Fresh Biol
54:994–1005
Spang A, Saw JH, Jorgensen SL, Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka K, Martijn J, Lind AE et al (2015)
Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Nature 521:173–179
Stoeck T, Breiner HW, Filker S et al (2014) A morpho-genetic diversity survey on ciliate plankton
from a mountain lake pinpoints the necessity of protist barcoding in microbial ecology.
Environ Microbiol 16:430–444
Tolotti M, Forsström L, Morabito G et al (2009) Biogeographical characterization of
phytoplankton assemblages in high altitude, and high latitude European lakes. Adv Limnol
62:55–75
Triadó-Margarit X, Casamayor EO (2012) Genetic diversity of planktonic eukaryotes in high
mountain lakes (Central Pyrenees, Spain). Environ Microbiol 14:2445–2456
Vila-Costa M, Barberan A, Auguet JC, Shalabh S, Moran MA, Casamayor EO (2013) Bacterial
and archaeal community structure in the surface microlayer of high mountain lakes examined
under two atmospheric aerosol loading scenarios. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 84:387–397
Vila-Costa M, Bartrons M, Catalan J, Casamayor EO (2014) Nitrogen cycling genes in epilithic
biofilms of oligotrophic high altitude lakes (Central Pyrenees, Spain). Microbial Ecol 68:60–69
Vila-Costa M, Pulido C, Chappuis E, Casamayor EO, Gacia E (2016) Macrophytes landscape
modulates ecosystem-level nitrogen losses through tightly coupled plant-microbe interactions.
Limnol Oceanogr 61:78–88
Wang J, Meier S, Soininen J, Casamayor EO, Pan F, Yang X, Zhang Y, Wu Q, Zhou J, An Z,
Shen J (2017) Regional and global elevational patterns of microbial species richness and
evennes. Ecography 40:393–402. doi:10.1111/ecog.02216
Wertz S, Degrange V, Prosser JI, Poly F, Commeaux C, Freitag T, Guillaumaud N, Roux XL
(2006) Maintenance of soil functioning following erosion of microbial diversity. Environ
Microbiol 8:2162–2169
Yarza P, Yilmaz P, Pruesse E, Glöckner FO et al (2014) Uniting the classification of cultured and
uncultured bacteria and archaea using 16S rRNA gene sequences. Nat Rev Microbiol 12:635–645
Zhang R, Wu Q, Piceno YM et al (2013) Diversity of bacterioplankton in contrasting Tibetan lakes
revealed by high-density microarray and clone library analysis. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 86:
277–287
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing,
adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate
credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and
indicate if changes were made.
The images or other third party material in this chapter are included in the chapter’s Creative
Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not
included in the chapter’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by
statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from
the copyright holder.
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