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Over the last years, the development of techniques such as metagenomics, that allows the direct access to the genetic information of an environment, has enabled us to comprehend the microbial communities as a complex network of interactions between and within cells rather than just as a set of individual microorganisms living together. Therefore, the study of relationships and communication between organisms has become essential to understand how an ecosystem works. In this chapter, we review the main communication pathways previously described in hot spring archaeal populations, and analyze nine published hot spring DNA metagenomes from distant locations, using metagenomics as a tool to increase our insights in this field.
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Funding both from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under grant agreement n° 324439, and from the Xunta de Galicia (Consolidación D.O.G. 20-12-2016, Contract Number: ED431C2016-012) co-financed by FEDER. The work of María-Eugenia DeCastro was supported by a FPU fellowship (Ministerio de Educación Cultura y Deporte) FPU12/05050. The authors acknowledge CESGA (www.cesga.es) in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, for providing access to computing facilities.
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DeCastro, ME., Escuder-Rodríguez, JJ., Becerra, M., Rodríguez-Belmonte, E., González-Siso, MI. (2017). Archaeal Biocommunication in Hot Springs Revealed by Metagenomics. In: Witzany, G. (eds) Biocommunication of Archaea. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65536-9_6
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