Metagenomic Exploration of Microbial Signatures on Periyar River Sediments from the Periyar Tiger Reserve in the Western Ghats

Aparna Chakkamadathil Rajeev; Nishi Sahu; Maushumi Deori; Suma Arun Dev; Vijay Pal Yadav; Ilora Ghosh

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00154-18

Metagenomic Exploration of Microbial Signatures on Periyar River Sediments from the Periyar Tiger Reserve in the Western Ghats

Genome Announc. 2018 Mar 15;6(11):e00154-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00154-18.

Authors

Aparna Chakkamadathil Rajeev¹, Nishi Sahu¹, Maushumi Deori¹, Suma Arun Dev², Vijay Pal Yadav¹, Ilora Ghosh³

Affiliations

¹ School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India.
² Division of Forest Genetics and Biotechnology, Kerala, Forest Research Institute, Kerala, India.
³ School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India [email protected].

Abstract

We report here targeted deep-sequencing metagenomic data that reveal a high level of diversity in the microbiota residing in the sediment of the Periyar River in a reserve forest of the Western Ghats. Of the 4,674 operational taxonomic units discovered, the dominant phyla represented were Proteobacteria (33.12%), Actinobacteria (14.58%), Acidobacteria (12.81%), and Bacteroidetes (9.89%).