Diversity and Community Structure of Ants in the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin, Coahuila, Mexico

Janda, Milan; Rosas‐Mejía, Madai; Corcuera, Pablo; Aguilar-Méndez, Mario J.; Vásquez‐Bolaños, Miguel; Tafoya-Alvarado, Yuliza

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“…Some non-microbial metabolites were also identified on the mat samples, for example, the (2R,6R)-2-methyl-6-undecylpiperidine is produced by ants of the genus Solenopsis sp., which are commonly found in the CCB. [24] Furthermore, some plantderived secondary metabolites like LPC 18 : 2 are frequently found in vegetal material from several plant species. [25] Finally, we anticipated these ecosystems would be fairly pristine and untouched by human activity, however and surprisingly, we detected a large molecular family of hexa(methoxymethyl)melamines (Figure 5a, GNPS library T1B) samples (T0 data was described by Espinosa-Asuar and collaborators.…”

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Metabolomic Diversity in Microbial Mats Under Different Environmental Conditions: A Tool to Test Microbial Ecosystem Chemical Change

Buenrostro‐Muñoz,

Jarmusch,

Souza

et al. 2023

Chemistry & Biodiversity

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Microbial mats are microbial communities capable of recycling the essential elements of life and considered to be the oldest evidence of microbial communities on Earth. Due to their uniqueness and limited sampling material, analyzing their metabolomic profile in different seasons or conditions is challenging. In this study, microbial mats from a small pond in the Cuatro Cienegas Basin in Coahuila, Mexico, were collected in wet and dry seasons. In addition to these samples, mesocosm experiments from the wet samples were set. These mats are elastic and rise after heavy rainfall by forming gas domes structures known as “Archean domes”, by the outgassing of methanogenic bacteria, archaea, and sulfur bacteria. Extracts from all mats and mesocosms were subjected to untargeted mass spectrometry‐based metabolomics and molecular networking analysis. Interestingly, each mat showed high chemical diversity that may be explained by the temporal dynamic processes in which they were sampled.

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