Environmental processes and health implications potentially mediated by dust-borne bacteria.

ABSTRACT: Understanding microbial migration and survival mechanisms in dust events (DEs) can elucidate genetic and metabolic exchange between environments and help predict the atmospheric pathways of ecological and health-related microbial stressors. Dust-borne microbial communities have been previously characterized, but the impact and interactions between potentially active bacteria within transported communities remain limited. Here, we analysed samples collected during DEs in Israel, using amplicon sequencing of the 16S rRNA genes and transcripts. Different air trajectories and wind speeds were associated not only with the genomic microbial community composition variations but also with specific 16S rRNA bacterial transcripts. Potentially active dust-borne bacteria exhibited positive interaction

SUBMITTER: Hu P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10866058 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature