Taxon-Driven Functional Shifts Associated with Storm Flow in an Urban Stream Microbial Community.

ABSTRACT: Urban streams are susceptible to stormwater and sewage inputs that can impact their ecological health and water quality. Microbial communities in streams play important functional roles, and their composition and metabolic potential can help assess ecological state and water quality. Although these environments are highly heterogenous, little is known about the influence of isolated perturbations, such as those resulting from rain events on urban stream microbiota. Here, we examined the microbial community composition and diversity in an urban stream during dry and wet weather conditions with both 16S rRNA gene sequencing across multiple years and shotgun metagenomics to more deeply analyze a single storm flow event. Metagenomics was used to assess population-level dynamics as well as shif

SUBMITTER: Chaudhary A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6034075 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature