Convergence of biofilm successional trajectories initiated during contrasting seasons.

ABSTRACT: Biofilm communities play a major role in explaining the temporal variation of biogeochemical conditions in freshwater ecosystems, and yet we know little about how these complex microbial communities change over time (aka succession), and from different initial conditions, in comparison to other stream communities. This has resulted in limited knowledge on how biofilm community structure and microbial colonization vary over relevant time scales to become mature biofilms capable of significant alteration of the freshwater environment in which they live. Here, we monitored successional trajectories of biofilm communities from summer and winter in a headwater stream and evaluated their structural state over time by DNA high-throughput sequencing. Significant differences in biofilm composition

SUBMITTER: Wang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9522907 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature