Bligh, Mark W.


Publications
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Genomic Insights Into the Archaea Inhabiting an Australian Radioactive Legacy Site

Citation
Vázquez-Campos et al. (2021). Frontiers in Microbiology 12
Names
“Nanoarchaeia” “Tiddalikarchaeales” “Micrarchaeia” “Tiddalikarchaeum” “Norongarragalinales” “Micrarchaeales” “Norongarragalinaceae” “Micrarchaeaceae” “Norongarragalina meridionalis” “Anstonellales” “Norongarragalina” Ca. Bilamarchaeaceae “Bilamarchaeum dharawalense” “Anstonella” “Bilamarchaeum” “Burarchaeales” “Anstonellaceae” “Burarchaeaceae” “Anstonella stagnisolia” “Burarchaeum australiense” “Burarchaeum” “Gugararchaeales” “Gugararchaeum” “Gugararchaeaceae” “Gugararchaeum adminiculabundum” “Tiddalikarchaeaceae” “Tiddalikarchaeum anstoanum” Ca. Methanoperedenaceae Ca. Methanoperedens Ca. Micrarchaeota
Abstract
During the 1960s, small quantities of radioactive materials were co-disposed with chemical waste at the Little Forest Legacy Site (LFLS, Sydney, Australia). The microbial function and population dynamics in a waste trench during a rainfall event have been previously investigated revealing a broad abundance of candidate and potentially undescribed taxa in this iron-rich, radionuclide-contaminated environment. Applying genome-based metagenomic methods, we recovered 37 refined archaeal MAGs, mainly