Comparison of assembly process and co-occurrence pattern between planktonic and benthic microbial communities in the Bohai Sea.

ABSTRACT: Unraveling the mechanisms structuring microbial community is a central goal in microbial ecology, but a detailed understanding of how community assembly processes relate to living habitats is still lacking. Here, via 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing, we investigated the assembly process of microbial communities in different habitats [water verse sediment, free-living (FL) verse particle-associated (PA)] and their impacts on the inter-taxa association patterns in the coastal Bohai Sea, China. The results showed clear differences in the composition and diversity of microbial communities among habitats, with greater dissimilarities between water column and sediment than between FL and PA communities. The microbial community assembly was dominated by dispersal limitation,

SUBMITTER: Liu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9641972 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature