Metagenomic Assessment of Prokaryotic Diversity within Hypersaline Tuz Lake, Turkey

Tuz Lake is the second biggest lake with an extreme hypersaline environment (over 32% (w/v) salt) in Turkey. It reported that was of marine origin, and its formation began tensional movements during Late Cretaceous Eocene. We conducted this research to determine prokaryotic diversity by metagenomics approach, which 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing microbial communities their natural environments. Hence, next-generation then bioinformatic analysis used investigate structure halophilic Bacteria Archaea Lake. Metagenomic reads revealed all archaeal populations belonged Euryarchaeota Nanoarchaeaeota phyla. Haloquadratum (34%), Haloparvum (31%), Halonotius (7%), Halorubrum (3%), Halapricum (2%), Halobellus Natronomonas (1%), Halococcus Halobacterium (1%) were found as dominant genera. The most abundant diverse bacterial phyla Bacteroidetes Proteobacteria. remaining taxa assigned Acetothermia, Cyanobacteria, Firmicutes, Halanaerobiaeota. Salinibacter uncultured microorganisms Pseudomonas (<1%), Arhodomonas Halorhodospira Chromobacterium (<1%) common genera diversity. Monthly seasonal potential interactions among environmental factors investigated. detected several such temperature, salinity, drought might have significant effects on richness.