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| Title |
Metagenomics of the Water Column in the Pristine Upper Course of the Amazon River
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, August 2011
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0023785 |
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| Authors |
Rohit Ghai, Francisco Rodŕíguez-Valera, Katherine D. McMahon, Danyelle Toyama, Raquel Rinke, Tereza Cristina Souza de Oliveira, José Wagner Garcia, Fernando Pellon de Miranda, Flavio Henrique-Silva |
| Abstract |
River water is a small percentage of the total freshwater on Earth but represents an essential resource for mankind. Microbes in rivers perform essential ecosystem roles including the mineralization of significant quantities of organic matter originating from terrestrial habitats. The Amazon river in particular is famous for its size and importance in the mobilization of both water and carbon out of its enormous basin. Here we present the first metagenomic study on the microbiota of this river. It presents many features in common with the other freshwater metagenome available (Lake Gatun in Panama) and much less similarity with marine samples. Among the microbial taxa found, the cosmopolitan freshwater acI lineage of the actinobacteria was clearly dominant. Group I Crenarchaea and the freshwater sister group of the marine SAR11 clade, LD12, were found alongside more exclusive and well known freshwater taxa such as Polynucleobacter. A metabolism-centric analysis revealed a disproportionate representation of pathways involved in heterotrophic carbon processing, as compared to those found in marine samples. In particular, these river microbes appear to be specialized in taking up and mineralizing allochthonous carbon derived from plant material. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | 1 | 25% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 2 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 75% |
| Scientists | 1 | 25% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 382 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 2% |
| Brazil | 5 | 1% |
| Sweden | 2 | <1% |
| Canada | 2 | <1% |
| Korea, Republic of | 1 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 5 | 1% |
| Unknown | 357 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 81 | 21% |
| Researcher | 67 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 55 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 39 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 37 | 10% |
| Other | 54 | 14% |
| Unknown | 49 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 167 | 44% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 62 | 16% |
| Environmental Science | 38 | 10% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 17 | 4% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 10 | 3% |
| Other | 28 | 7% |
| Unknown | 60 | 16% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 March 2024.
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#5,842,899
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#69,870
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Outputs of similar age
#33,459
of 123,839 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#755
of 2,442 outputs
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