Diversity and Dynamics of Seaweed Associated Microbial Communities Inhabiting the Lagoon of Venice.

ABSTRACT: Seaweeds are a group of essential photosynthetic organisms that harbor a rich diversity of associated microbial communities with substantial functions related to host health and defense. Environmental and anthropogenic stressors may disrupt the microbial communities and their metabolic activity, leading to host physiological alterations that negatively affect seaweeds' performance and survival. Here, the bacterial communities associated with one of the most common seaweed, Ulva laetevirens Areshough, were sampled over a year at three sites of the lagoon of Venice affected by different environmental and anthropogenic stressors. Bacterial communities were characterized through Illumina sequencing of the V4 hypervariable region of 16S rRNA genes. The study demonstrated that the seaweed

SUBMITTER: Juhmani AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7693704 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature