Archaeal contribution to carbon-functional composition and abundance in China's coastal wetlands: Not to be underestimated.

ABSTRACT: Microbial diversity, together with carbon function, plays a key role in driving the wetland carbon cycle; however, the composition, driving factors of carbon-functional genes and the relationship with microbial community have not been well characterized in coastal wetlands. To understand these concerns, microbes, carbon-functional genes, and related environmental factors were investigated in twenty wetlands along China's coast. The results indicate that carbon-functional gene composition is dominated by archaeal rather than bacterial community and that Nanoarchaeaeota is the dominant archaeal phylum associated with carbon cycling in anoxic sediments. Compared with microbes, carbon-functional composition was more stable because they showed the highest Shannon diversity and archaeal function

SUBMITTER: Yang M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9685420 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature