Archaea in Natural and Impacted Brazilian Environments.
In recent years, archaeal diversity surveys have received increasing attention. Brazil is a country known for its natural diversity and variety of biomes, which makes it an interesting sampling site for such studies. However, archaeal communities in natural and impacted Brazilian environments have only recently been investigated. In this review, based on a search on the PubMed database on the last week of April 2016, we present and discuss the results obtained in the 51 studies retrieved, focusing on archaeal communities in water, sediments, and soils of different Brazilian environments. We concluded that, in spite of its vast territory and biomes, the number of publications focusing on archaeal detection and/or characterization in Brazil is still incipient, indicating that these environments still represent a great potential to be explored.
Department of Cell Biology, Biological Sciences Institute, University of Brasília, 70910-900 Brasília, DF, Brazil.
Thiago
0000-0001-7782-9333
T
Rodrigues
Department of Cell Biology, Biological Sciences Institute, University of Brasília, 70910-900 Brasília, DF, Brazil.
Aline
0000-0002-8524-3727
A
Belmok
Department of Cell Biology, Biological Sciences Institute, University of Brasília, 70910-900 Brasília, DF, Brazil.
Elisa
0000-0003-4620-1097
E
Catão
Department of Cell Biology, Biological Sciences Institute, University of Brasília, 70910-900 Brasília, DF, Brazil.
Cynthia Maria
0000-0002-0876-9717
CM
Kyaw
D001105:Archaea / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D044822:Biodiversity; D001938:Brazil; D004783:Environmental Microbiology