Environmental Drivers of Free-Living vs. Particle-Attached Bacterial Community Composition in the Mauritania Upwelling System

• Published in: Frontiers in Microbiology
• Main Authors: Bachmann, Jennifer, Heimbach, Tabea, Hassenrück, Christiane, Kopprio, Germán Adolfo, Iversen, Morten Hvitfeldt, Grossart, Hans Peter, Gärdes, Astrid
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A.
• Subjects: 16S RRNA ILLUMINA AMPLICON SEQUENCING; ALPHA DIVERSITY; BIODIVERSITY; BRAY CURTIS DISSIMILARITY; MICROBIAL ECOLOGY; PROKARYOTES; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE; Oceanografía; Hidrología; Recursos Hídricos; Ciencias de la Tierra y relacionadas con el Medio Ambiente; CIENCIAS NATURALES Y EXACTAS; Argentina; Argentino; Bray; Christiane; Alfred Wegener Institute
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/87854

Saharan dust input and seasonal upwelling along North-West Africa provide a model system for studying microbial processes related to the export and recycling of nutrients. This study offers the first molecular characterization of prokaryotic particle-attached (PA; >3.0 μm) and free-living (FL; 0....