Comparative study of the composition and genetic diversity of the picoeukaryote community in a Chinese aquaculture area and an open sea area

Song, Xue, Xu, Zhimeng, Liu, Qian, Li, Yan, Ma, Yu, Wang, Jian, Sun, Mengran, Shao, Hongbing, Sun, Hui, Malin, Gillian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3639-9215, Jiang, Yong and Wang, Min (2017) Comparative study of the composition and genetic diversity of the picoeukaryote community in a Chinese aquaculture area and an open sea area. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 97 (1). pp. 151-159. ISSN 0025-3154

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Abstract

Picoeukaryotes (<2–3 μm) perform key roles for the functioning of marine ecosystems, but little is known regarding the composition and diversity of picoeukaryotes in aquaculture areas. In this study, the Illumina MiSeq platform was used for sequencing the V4 variable region within the 18S rDNA gene to analyse genetic diversity and relative abundance of picoeukaryotic communities in the Qinhuangdao scallop cultivation area of the Bohai Sea. The community was dominated by three super groups, the alveolates (54%), stramenopiles (41%) and chlorophytes (3%), and three groups, dinoflagellates (54%), pelagomonadales (40%) and prasinophytes (3%). Furthermore, a contrasting station with open water away from the eutrophic aquaculture area was chosen. The communities collected from the two stations exhibited significant differences, with higher diversity in the aquaculture area. These results provide the first snapshot of the picoeukaryotic diversity in surface waters of the Qinhuangdao scallop cultivation area, and basic data for future studies on picoeukaryote community in an aquaculture region.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	environmental heterogeneity,genetic diversity,picoeukaryotes,miseq,18s rdna,sdg 14 - life below water ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/life_below_water
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	22 Mar 2016 10:00
Last Modified:	13 Apr 2023 13:48
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/57979
DOI:	10.1017/S0025315416000205

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