Differences in the Composition of Archaeal Communities in Sediments from Contrasting Zones of Lake Taihu.

ABSTRACT: In shallow lakes, different primary producers might impact the physiochemical characteristics of the sediment and the associated microbial communities. Until now, little was known about the features of sediment Archaea and their variation across different primary producer-dominated ecosystems. Lake Taihu provides a suitable study area with cyanobacteria- and macrophyte-dominated zones co-occurring in one ecosystem. The composition of the sediment archaeal community was assessed using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing technology, based on which the potential variation with respect to the physiochemical characteristics of the sediment was analyzed. Euryarchaeota (30.19% of total archaeal sequences) and Bathyarchaeota (28.00%) were the two most abundant phyla, followed by Cre

SUBMITTER: Fan X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5030832 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature