The marine ecosystems of the marginal seas of the Western Pacific region are frequently
disturbed by terrigenous materials. It is of great significance to investigate the ecological …

Microbial communities of the Chinese marginal seas have rarely been reported. Here,
bacterial and archaeal community structures and abundance in the surface sediment of four …

In this study, 39 sediment samples were collected from Qilian Island, Iltis Bank, and
Yongxing Island in Xuande Atoll in the South China Sea (SCS), and the microbial …

This paper aims at an investigation of the features of bacterial communities in surface
sediments of the South China Sea (SCS). In particular, biogeographical distribution patterns …

Investigating the entire species composition of the microorganisms is crucial to understand
their roles in the biogeochemical cycles. Metagenomic DNA was extracted from six intertidal …

Background Subseafloor sediments accumulate large amounts of organic and inorganic
materials that contain a highly diverse microbial ecosystem. The aim of this study was to …

Marine sediments are a microbial biosphere with an unknown physiology, and the
sediments harbor numerous distinct phylogenetic lineages of Bacteria and Archaea that are …

The nitrogen (N) cycle is closely related to the stability of marine ecosystems. Microbial
communities have been directly linked to marine N-cycling processes. However, systematic …

In order to understand the diversity and distribution of the bacterial community in the coastal
sediment of the Bohai Bay, China, high-throughput barcoded pyrosequencing of the 16S …

The biogeography of active microbial communities and the underlying mechanisms in
marine sediments are important in microbial ecology but remain unclear. Here, using qPCR …