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    Spatial patterns of bacterial richness and evenness in the NW Mediterranean Sea explored by pyrosequencing of the 16S rRNA

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    2010-12-30
    Author
    Pommier, Thomas  Concept link
    Neal, Phillip R.  Concept link
    Gasol, Josep M.  Concept link
    Coll, Montserrat  Concept link
    Acinas, Silvia G.  Concept link
    Pedros-Alio, Carlos  Concept link
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/4545
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    https://doi.org/10.3354/ame01484
    DOI
    10.3354/ame01484
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     Bacterial diversity; Pyrosequencing; Blanes Bay Microbial Observatory 
    Abstract
    Due to analytical limitations, patterns of richness and evenness of microbes are scarce in the current literature. The newest and powerful pyrosequencing technology may solve this issue by sampling thousands of sequences from the same community. We conducted a study of diversity along a horizontal transect (ca. 120 km) and a depth profile (surface to bottom at ca. 2000 m) in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea, using this technology on the V6 region of the 16S rDNA gene and analyzed patterns of richness and evenness of marine free-living bacterial communities. A total of 201605 tag sequences were obtained from the 10 samples considered and clustered according to their similarity in 1200 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) per sample on average. We found a parallel decrease in richness and evenness from coast to offshore and from bottom to surface. We also observed a predominance of a few OTUs in each sample, while ca. 50% of all OTUs were found as singletons, which indicated that the community structures differed dramatically between sites despite the relative proximity and the physical connectivity between the samples. Despite these differences, using the 300 most abundant OTUs only was sufficient to obtain the same clustering of samples as with the complete dataset. Finally, both richness and evenness were negatively correlated with bacterial biomass and heterotrophic production.
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    Author Posting. © Inter-Research, 2010. This article is posted here by permission of Inter-Research for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Aquatic Microbila Ecology 61 (2010): 221-233, doi:10.3354/ame01484.
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    Aquatic Microbila Ecology 61 (2010): 221-233
     

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