Microbial biofilm community structure and composition on the lithic substrates of Herculaneum Suburban Baths.

ABSTRACT: In this work, we want to investigate the impact of different substrates and different environmental condition on the biofilm communities growing on plaster, marble, and mortar substrates inside the Herculaneum Suburban Baths. To do so, we measured environmental conditions and sampled biofilm communities along the walls of the baths and used culture-dependent and -independent molecular techniques (DGGE) to identify the species at each sampling sites. We used the species pool to infer structure and richness of communities within each site in each substrate, and confocal light scanning microscopy to assess the three-dimensional structure of the sampled biofilms. To gather further insights, we built a meta-community network and used its local realizations to analyze co-occurrence patterns of s

SUBMITTER: De Natale A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7197799 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature