Turnover in Life-Strategies Recapitulates Marine Microbial Succession Colonizing Model Particles.

ABSTRACT: Particulate organic matter (POM) in the ocean sustains diverse communities of bacteria that mediate the remineralization of organic complex matter. However, the variability of these particles and of the environmental conditions surrounding them present a challenge to the study of the ecological processes shaping particle-associated communities and their function. In this work, we utilize data from experiments in which coastal water communities are grown on synthetic particles to ask which are the most important ecological drivers of their assembly and associated traits. Combining 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing with shotgun metagenomics, together with an analysis of the full genomes of a subset of isolated strains, we were able to identify two-to-three distinct community classes, correspondin

SUBMITTER: Pascual-Garcia A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9260654 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature