Biodiversity of microorganisms in the Baltic Sea: the power of novel methods in the identification of marine microbes.

ABSTRACT: Until recently, the data on the diversity of the entire microbial community from the Baltic Sea were relatively rare and very scarce. However, modern molecular methods have provided new insights into this field with interesting results. They can be summarized as follows. (i) Although low salinity causes a reduction in the biodiversity of multicellular species relative to the populations of the North-East Atlantic, no such reduction occurs in bacterial diversity. (ii) Among cyanobacteria, the picocyanobacterial group dominates when considering gene abundance, while filamentous cyanobacteria dominate in means of biomass. (iii) The diversity of diatoms and dinoflagellates is significantly larger than described a few decades ago; however, molecular studies on these groups are still scarce. (iv

SUBMITTER: Mazur-Marzec H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11500664 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature