Prokaryotic diversity of tropical coastal sand dunes ecosystem using metagenomics.

ABSTRACT: Coastal sand dunes (CSDs), unique, stressed and hostile habitats act as a barrier between marine and terrestrial ecosystems. CSDs are stressed in terms of nutrition and fluctuating physio-chemical conditions. CSD is classified into several types, each of which presents different challenges for life forms. This study focuses on exploring bacterial and archaeal diversity and community structure in four CSD namely, Embryo, Fore, Gray, and Mature dunes of Keri beach, Goa along the west coast of India. The study was carried out using Next Generation Sequencing of hypervariable V3-V4 regions of the 16S rRNA gene using Illumina HiSeq platform. The present study hypothesizes that the prokaryotic communities at each dune may be different and could have different role in the ecosystem. The NGS for E

SUBMITTER: Shet SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8096885 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature