title: Growth and biomass composition of the cyanobacterium Geitlerinema sp. isolated from hypersaline ponds
design: The A filamentous cyanobacterium morphologically similar to the genus  Geitlerinema (order Oscillatoriales)sp. was isolated from the hypersaline ponds of Messolonghi saltworks (Western Greece). Molecular and its  identification of the isolate was performed through DNA amplicon high-throughput sequencing (HTS). Briefly, a sSub-samples of ca. 50 mL from the culture of the isolate of ca. 50 mL were was filtered using 0.2 m nucleopore filters and stored at 20 C until the molecular analysisDNA extraction and further molecular analysis. The DNA collected from DNA each filter was extracted using the Macherey-Nagel NucleoSpin Soil, Genomic DNA Isolation Kit according to the manufacturers instructions. Metagenomic sequencing was implemented on Illumina MiSeq using 300 + 300 bp paired-end sequencing.