Seagrass (Zostera marina) Colonization Promotes the Accumulation of Diazotrophic Bacteria and Alters the Relative Abundances of Specific Bacterial Lineages Involved in Benthic Carbon and Sulfur Cycling

• Published in: Applied and Environmental Microbiology Vol. 81; no. 19; pp. 6901 - 6914
• Main Authors: Sun, Feifei, Zhang, Xiaoli, Zhang, Qianqian, Liu, Fanghua, Zhang, Jianping, Gong, Jun
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Society for Microbiology 01.10.2015
• Subjects: Anaerobic conditions; Bacteria; Bacteria - classification; Bacteria - genetics; Bacteria - isolation & purification; Bacteria - metabolism; Bioavailability; Biodiversity; Biogeochemical cycles; Biogeochemistry; Cadmium; Carbon; Carbon - metabolism; China; Colonization; Community structure; Desulfobulbus; Desulfococcus; Ecosystem; Flavobacteriaceae; Genotypes; Geobacteraceae; Geologic Sediments - microbiology; Lagoons; Marine ecology; Microbial Ecology; Microbiology; Molecular Sequence Data; Nitrogen; Nitrogen - metabolism; Nitrogen Fixation; Organic carbon; Organic matter; Organic nitrogen; Phylogeny; Polymorphism; Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; Pseudomonas; Sedimentary environments; Sediments; Sulfate reduction; Sulfur; Sulfur - metabolism; Zostera; Zostera marina; Zosteraceae - growth & development; China

Seagrass colonization changes the chemistry and biogeochemical cycles mediated by microbes in coastal sediments. In this study, we molecularly characterized the diazotrophic assemblages and entire bacterial community in surface sediments of a Zostera marina -colonized coastal lagoon in northern Chin...