Hypersaline Lake Urmia: a potential hotspot for microbial genomic variation
Abstract Lake Urmia located in Iran is a hypersaline environment with a salinity of about 27% (w/v).Metagenomic analyses of water samples collected from six locations in the lake exhibited a microbial community dominated by representatives of the family Haloferacaceae (69.8%), mainly those affiliated to only two genera, Haloquadratum (59.3%) and Ha