Spatial co-occurrence patterns of benthic microbial assemblage in response to trace metals in the Atacama Desert Coastline.

ABSTRACT: Taxonomic and functional microbial communities may respond differently to anthropogenic coastal impacts, but ecological quality monitoring assessments using environmental DNA and RNA (eDNA/eRNA) in response to pollution are poorly understood. In the present study, we investigated the utility of the co-occurrence network approach's to comprehensively explore both structure and potential functions of benthic marine microbial communities and their responses to Cu and Fe fractioning from two sediment deposition coastal zones of northern Chile via 16S rRNA gene metabarcoding. The results revealed substantial differences in the microbial communities, with the predominance of two distinct module hubs based on study zone. This indicates that habitat influences microbial co-occurrence networ

SUBMITTER: Zarate A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9885135 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature