Aeolian Prokaryotic Communities of the Global Dust Belt Over the Red Sea.

ABSTRACT: Aeolian prokaryotic communities (APC) are important components of bioaerosols that are transported freely or attached to dust particles suspended in the atmosphere. Terrestrial and marine ecosystems are known to release and receive significant prokaryote loads into and from the surrounded atmospheric air. However, compared to terrestrial systems, there is a lack of microbial characterization of atmospheric dust over marine systems, such as the Red Sea, which receives significant terrestrial dust loads and is centrally located within the Global Dust Belt. Prokaryotic communities are likely to be particularly important in the Global Dust Belt, the area between the west coast of North Africa and Central Asia that supports the highest dust fluxes on the planet. Here we characterize the diversi

SUBMITTER: Aalismail NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7688470 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature