Acclimation of Culturable Bacterial Communities under the Stresses of Different Organic Compounds.

ABSTRACT: The phylogenetic diversity of bacterial communities in response to environmental disturbances such as organic pollution has been well studied, but little is known about the way in which organic contaminants influence the acclimation of functional bacteria. In the present study, tolerance assays for bacterial communities from the sediment in the Pearl River Estuary were conducted with the isolation of functional bacteria using pyrene and different estrogens as environmental stressors. Molecular ecological networks and phylogenetic trees were constructed using both 16S rRNA gene sequences of cultured bacterial strains and 16S rRNA gene-based pyrosequencing data to illustrate the successions of bacterial communities and their acclimations to the different organic compounds. A total of 111 bac

SUBMITTER: Wang H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5827545 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature