Novel Archaea and Bacteria Dominate Stable Microbial Communities in North America's Largest Hot Spring

Boiling Springs Lake is an ~ 12,000 m², 55 °C, pH 2 thermal feature located in Lassen Volcanic National Park in northern California, USA. We assessed the microbial diversity in the lake by analyzing -500 sequences from clone libraries constructed using three different primer sets targeted at 16S rRN...

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