Morphological and molecular identification reveals that waters from an isolated oasis in Tamanrasset (extreme South of Algerian Sahara) are colonized by opportunistic and pollution-tolerant diatom species

Morphological and molecular identification reveals that waters from an isolated oasis in Tamanrasset (extreme South of Algerian Sahara) are colonized by opportunistic and pollution-tolerant diatom species

A water sample was obtained from an arheic oasis in the deep Sahara Desert, the Gueltates Afilal in Tamanrasset (Algeria). Five diatom strains were isolated, cultivated and identified as Tryblionella apiculata, Nitzschia supralitorea, Fistulifera saprophila, Navicula veneta and Thalassiosira pseudon...

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Main Authors: Romain Gastineau, Chahinez Hamedi, Mohammed Bey Baba Hamed, Sidi-Mohammed El-Amine Abi-Ayad, Małgorzata Bąk, Claude Lemieux, Monique Turmel, Sławomir Dobosz, Rafał J. Wróbel, Agnieszka Kierzek, Horst Lange-Bertalot, Andrzej Witkowski
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Elsevier 2021
Subjects:
Diatoms
Sahara
Oasis
Gueltates Afilal
NGS
SEM
Ecology
QH540-549.5
Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/a8abc0f9159c48c7b28aed668c54d6aa
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