Abstract
The species composition of the microbial association involved in industrial tank biooxidation of the concentrate of refractory pyrrhotite-containing pyrite-arsenopyrite gold-arsenic ore of the Olympiadinskoe deposit at 39°C was studied by cultural and molecular biological techniques. Pure microbial cultures were isolated, their physiological characteristics were investigated, and their taxonomic position was determined by 16S rRNA gene sequencing. The library of 16S rRNA gene clones obtained from the total DNA isolated from the biomass of the pulp of industrial reactors was analyzed. The diversity of microorganisms revealed by cultural techniques in the association of acidophilic chemolithotrophs (Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, Leptospirillum ferriphilum, Sulfobacillus thermosulfidooxidans, Ferroplasma acidiphilum, Alicyclobacillus tolerans, and Acidiphilium cryptum) was higher than the diversity of the 16S rDNA clone library (At. ferrooxidans, L. ferriphilum, and F. acidiphilum). The combination of microbiological and molecular biological techniques for the investigation of the biodiversity in natural and anthropogenic microbial communities promotes detection of new phylogenetic microbial groups in these communities.
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