Effects of two different high-fidelity DNA polymerases on genetic analysis of the cyanobacterial community structure in a subtropical deep freshwater reservoir

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• 作者：Zhuo Zhen ; Jingwen Liu ; Christopher Rensing ; Changzhou Yan…
• 关键词：Cyanobacterial diversity ; Clone library ; Q5 DNA polymerase ; exTaq polymerase
• 刊名：Archives of Microbiology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：199
• 期：1
• 页码：125-134
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• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Microbiology; Microbial Ecology; Biochemistry, general; Cell Biology; Biotechnology; Ecology;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1432-072X
• 卷排序：199

文摘

The use of molecular methods to investigate the community structure and diversity of microalgae has largely replaced the previous morphological methods that were routinely carried out by microscopy. Different DNA polymerases can lead to bias in PCR amplification and affect the downstream community and diversity analysis. In this study, two clone libraries were constructed with two different DNA polymerases, Q5 high-fidelity DNA polymerase and exTaq polymerase, to compare the differences in their capability to accurately reflect the cyanobacterial community structure and diversity in a subtropical deep freshwater reservoir, Dongzhen reservoir. The results indicated that the two cyanobacterial clone libraries constructed by using Q5 high-fidelity DNA polymerase and exTaq DNA polymerase did not show significant differences, although a slightly higher community diversity was revealed by using Q5 high-fidelity DNA polymerase. It is noteworthy that so far Q5 high-fidelity DNA polymerase was the first time to be employed in the genetic analysis of cyanobacterial community. And it is for the first time that the cyanobacterial community structure in Dongzhen reservoir was analyzed using molecular methods. Phylogenetic analysis revealed that most of the clones belonged to Cyanophyta and chloroplast, among which Cyanobium sp. Suigetsu-CR5 made up the largest fraction of cyanobacteria in winter.