Biogeographical Distribution and Community Assembly of Active Protistan Assemblages Along an Estuary to a Basin Transect of the Northern South China Sea.

ABSTRACT: Marine protists are essential for globally critical biological processes, including the biogeochemical cycles of matter and energy. However, compared with their prokaryotic counterpart, it remains largely unclear how environmental factors determine the diversity and distribution of the active protistan communities on the regional scale. In the present study, the biodiversity, community composition, and potential drivers of the total, abundant, and rare protistan groups were studied using high throughput sequencing on the V9 hyper-variable regions of the small subunit ribosomal RNA (SSU rRNA) along an estuary to basin transect in the northern South China Sea. Overall, Bacillariophyta and Cercozoa were abundant in the surface water; heterotrophic protists including Spirotrichea and marine st

SUBMITTER: Li R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7916720 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature