Geomicrobiological insight into the Lonar Lake: the only hypersaline meteorite crater lake within basalt rock

Lonar Lake, a meteorite impact soda lake created above the Decan basalt rock. Due to uniqueness of its properties, Lonar Lake get special attention throughout the world. Though, a lot of work is done in geological aspects; relatively very less attention has been paid towards the deep investigation of microbial community distribution, their metabolic interaction and metabolic function in the cycling of major elements in soda lakes. Hence in the present study, functional potentiality of Lonar Lake was investigated, employing shotgun sequencing