Salt marsh sediment bacterial communities maintain original population structure after transplantation across a latitudinal gradient.

ABSTRACT: Dispersal and environmental selection are two of the most important factors that govern the distributions of microbial communities in nature. While dispersal rates are often inferred by measuring the degree to which community similarity diminishes with increasing geographic distance, determining the extent to which environmental selection impacts the distribution of microbes is more complex. To address this knowledge gap, we performed a large reciprocal transplant experiment to simulate the dispersal of US East Coast salt marsh Spartina alterniflora rhizome-associated microbial sediment communities across a latitudinal gradient and determined if any shifts in microbial community composition occurred as a result of the transplantation. Using bacterial 16S rRNA gene sequencing, we did

SUBMITTER: Angermeyer A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5935077 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature