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Diversity of cyanobacteria from thermal muds (Balaruc-Les-Bains, France) with the description of Pseudochroococcus coutei gen. nov., sp. nov.

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Cyanobacteria are able to synthesize a high diversity of natural compounds that account for their success in the colonization of a variety of ecological niches. Many of them have beneficial properties. The mud from the thermal baths of Balaruc-Les-Bains, one of the oldest thermal baths in France, has long been recognized as a healing treatment for arthro-rheumatic diseases. To characterize the cyanobacteria living in these muds, several strains were isolated from the water column and biofilms of the retention basin and analyzed using a polyphasic approach. Morphological, ultrastructural and molecular (16S rRNA gene and 16S-23S ITS region sequencing) methods were employed to identify nine cyanobacterial strains belonging to the orders Chroococcales, Synechococcales, Oscillatoriales and Nostocales. The combination of morphological and genetic characteristics supported the description of a new genus and species with the type species as Pseudochroococcus coutei. The taxonomic diversity in the muds from Thermes de Balaruc-Les-Bains appears higher than previously documented, providing new candidate taxa for their observed therapeutic properties.
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mnhn-03220263 , version 1 (07-05-2021)

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Charlotte Duval, Sahima Hamlaoui, Bérénice Piquet, Géraldine Toutirais, Claude Yéprémian, et al.. Diversity of cyanobacteria from thermal muds (Balaruc-Les-Bains, France) with the description of Pseudochroococcus coutei gen. nov., sp. nov.. FEMS Microbes, 2021, 2, pp.xtab006. ⟨10.1093/femsmc/xtab006⟩. ⟨mnhn-03220263⟩

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