Bacterial diversity and community in Qula from the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in China.

ABSTRACT: Qula is a cheese-like product usually prepared with unpasteurized yak milk under open conditions, with both endogenous and exogenous microorganisms involved in the fermentation process. In the present study, 15 Qula samples were collected from five different regions in China to investigate the diversity of microbial communities using high-throughput sequencing targeting the V3-V4 region of 16S rRNA gene. The bacterial diversity significantly differed among samples of different origins, indicating a possible effect of geography. The result also showed that microbial communities significantly differed in samples of different origin and these differences were greater at the genus than the phylum level. A total of six phyla were identified in the samples, and Firmicutes and Proteobacteria had

SUBMITTER: Zhu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6286660 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature