North Sea spring bloom-associated Gammaproteobacteria fill diverse heterotrophic niches.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The planktonic bacterial community associated with spring phytoplankton blooms in the North Sea is responsible for a large amount of carbon turnover in an environment characterised by high primary productivity. Individual clades belonging to the Gammaproteobacteria have shown similar population dynamics to Bacteroidetes species, and are thus assumed to fill competing ecological niches. Previous studies have generated large numbers of metagenome assembled genomes and metaproteomes from these environments, which can be readily mined to identify populations performing potentially important ecosystem functions. In this study we attempt to catalogue these spring bloom-associated Gammaproteobacteria, which have thus far attracted less attention than sympatric Alphaproteobacter

SUBMITTER: Francis B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8371827 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature