The Family Caldisericaceae

Comparison of boreal acid sulfate soil microbial communities in oxidative and reductive environments

“…3), potentially due to the deeper samples taken at this site. The VePo-160 sample had a high relative proportion of 16S rRNA sequences that aligned with the Caldisericaceae that in the literature is represented by a single species that grows chemoheterotrophically via anaerobic reduction of sulfur compounds [53] that is consistent with the geochemical data indicating alkalinity-producing reduction reactions had occurred [54]. The dominant families in the deeper Vebomark pond soils aligned within the Acidimicrobiaceae such as OTU_002215, _001883, and _000054 that together made up 42.0% of the relative population in VePo-190 and were also present at lower proportions in VePo-240 and -290.…”