Repeated selective enrichment process of sediment microbiota occurred in sea cucumber guts.
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DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.12791
Abstract: Deposit-feeding sea cucumbers repeat ingestion of sediments and excretion of feces daily and consequently increase bacterial abundance in sediments and promote organic matter mineralization. Such ecological roles are expected to be collaborative activities of sea… read more here.
Keywords: microbiota; sea; selective enrichment; sediment microbiota ... See more keywords
Sediment Microbiota as a Proxy of Environmental Health: Discovering Inter- and Intrakingdom Dynamics along the Eastern Mediterranean Continental Shelf
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DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.02242-22
Abstract: Analysis of data, curated over 3 years of sediment sampling, improves our understanding of microbiota assembly in marine sediment. Furthermore, we demonstrate the importance of cross-kingdom integration of information in the study of microbial community… read more here.
Keywords: ecology; sediment microbiota; environmental health; microbiota ... See more keywords