Journal article
Prokaryotic assemblages and metagenomes in pelagic zones of the South China Sea
CH Tseng, PW Chiang, HC Lai, FK Shiah, TC Hsu, YL Chen, LS Wen, CM Tseng, WY Shieh, I Saeed, S Halgamuge, SL Tang
BMC Genomics | Published : 2015
Abstract
Background: Prokaryotic microbes, the most abundant organisms in the ocean, are remarkably diverse. Despite numerous studies of marine prokaryotes, the zonation of their communities in pelagic zones has been poorly delineated. By exploiting the persistent stratification of the South China Sea (SCS), we performed a 2-year, large spatial scale (10, 100, 1000, and 3000 m) survey, which included a pilot study in 2006 and comprehensive sampling in 2007, to investigate the biological zonation of bacteria and archaea using 16S rRNA tag and shotgun metagenome sequencing. Results: Alphaproteobacteria dominated the bacterial community in the surface SCS, where the abundance of Betaproteobacteria was s..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank the officers and crew of the R/V Ocean Researcher I for their assistance in sampling during the SEATS cruises. This work was financially supported by the Academia Sinica (the Bioscience Project of Biodiversity Research Center and the Ocean Acidification Project of the Research Center for Environmental Change), the Ministry of Science and Technology (the NoSoCS Project, NSC 96-2611-M-002-004, and NSC 102-2611-M-002-008), and the National Taiwan University (Drunken Moon Lake Integrated Scientific Research Platform Grant NTU 101R3252). We also thank colleagues for providing their metagenomic datasets for comparative analyses.