Increased contribution of parasites in microbial eukaryotic communities of different Aegean Sea coastal systems.

ABSTRACT:

Background-aim

Protistan communities have a major contribution to biochemical processes and food webs in coastal ecosystems. However, related studies are scarce and usually limited in specific groups and/or sites. The present study examined the spatial structure of the entire protistan community in seven different gulfs and three different depths in a regional Mediterranean Sea, aiming to define taxa that are important for differences detected in the marine microbial network across the different gulfs studied as well as their trophic interactions.

Methods

Protistan community structure analysis was based on the diversity of the V2-V3 hypervariable region of the 18S rRNA gene. Operational taxonomic units (OTUs) were identified using a 97% sequence identity threshold and were c

SUBMITTER: Meziti A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10740597 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature