Relationships between and formation dynamics of the microbiota of consumers, producers, and the environment in an abalone aquatic system.

ABSTRACT: An ecosystem is a community comprising living and nonliving components of the environment. Microbes are ubiquitous elements in each of these components. The dynamics of microbiota formation in an ecosystem is important to elucidate, because how the different components of a system exchange microbes, and how the microbes control ecological processes remain unresolved. In this study, an abalone, Haliotis diversicolor, seed-nursing pond was used as a model system. We first examined changes in bacterial communities during the seedling cultivation of this herbivorous juvenile aquatic invertebrate animal. Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) and pyrosequencing were used to analyze bacterial community dynamics and spatio-temporal interactions of different system components: consumers (a

SUBMITTER: Jiang JZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5546691 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature