Limited Microbial Contribution in Salt Lake Sediment and Water to Each Other’s Microbial Communities
Mingxian Han, Huiying Yu, Jianrong Huang, Chuanxu Wang, Xin Li, Xiaodong Wang, Liu Xu, Jingjing Zhao, Hongchen Jiang, Hermann J Heipieper · 2024
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Description
Mingxian Han and co-authors ask how much the microbe communities of a salt lake's mud and water actually seed each other, in a 2024 study of Yuncheng Salt Lake. Wind, water movement, and human activity keep swapping microbes between the two habitats, yet it was unclear how many survive the move. The team used source tracking and gene sequencing on paired samples.
Only small shares crossed over: under about a tenth in either direction, with the exact share set by the salt gap between mud and water. Mud communities formed mostly by chance processes, while water communities were shaped mainly by their conditions. Mud also carried richer metabolic potential. The results show the two habitats stay largely separate worlds.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mingxian Han, Huiying Yu, Jianrong Huang, Chuanxu Wang, Xin Li, Xiaodong Wang, Liu Xu, Jingjing Zhao, Hongchen Jiang, Hermann J Heipieper |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 44 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |