TY - JOUR AU - Tang, Jie AU - Liang, Yuanmei AU - Jiang, Dong AU - Li, Liheng AU - Luo, Yifan AU - Shah, Md. Mahfuzur R. AU - Daroch, Maurycy PY - 2018 DA - 2018/10/17 TI - Temperature-controlled thermophilic bacterial communities in hot springs of western Sichuan, China JO - BMC Microbiology SP - 134 VL - 18 IS - 1 AB - Ganzi Prefecture in Western China is situated geographically at the transition regions between Tibetan Plateau and Sichuan Basin in a highly tectonically active boundary area between the India and Eurasia plates. The region hosts various hot springs that span a wide range of temperature from 30 to 98 °C and are located at high altitude (up to 4200 m above sea level) in the region of large geothermal anomalies and active Xianshuihe slip-fault that has been active since Holocene. The site represents a biodiversity reservoir for thermophiles, yet their diversity and relationship to geochemical parameters are largely unknown. In the present work, bacterial diversity and community structure in 14 hot springs of Ganzi were investigated using Illumina MiSeq sequencing. SN - 1471-2180 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-018-1271-z DO - 10.1186/s12866-018-1271-z ID - Tang2018 ER -