Biogeographical and Biodiversity Patterns of Marine Planktonic Bacteria Spanning from the South China Sea across the Gulf of Bengal to the Northern Arabian Sea.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the biogeographical and biodiversity patterns of bacterial communities is essential in unraveling their responses to future environmental changes. However, the relationships between marine planktonic bacterial biodiversity and seawater chlorophyll a are largely understudied. Here, we used high-throughput sequencing to study the biodiversity patterns of marine planktonic bacteria across a broad chlorophyll a gradient spanning from the South China Sea across the Gulf of Bengal to the northern Arabian Sea. We found that the biogeographical patterns of marine planktonic bacteria complied with the scenario of homogeneous selection, with chlorophyll a concentration being the key environmental selecting variable of bacteria taxa. The relative abundance of Pro

SUBMITTER: Ren L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10269852 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature