Microbial Community Composition of the Danshui River Estuary of Northern Taiwan and the Practicality of the Phylogenetic Method in Microbial Barcoding

• Pei-Chun Liao ^[1] ; Bing-Hong Huang ^[1] ; Shong Huang ^[1]
  1. [1] Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, China
• Localización: Microbial ecology, ISSN-e 1432-184X, ISSN 0095-3628, Vol. 54, Nº. 3, 2007, págs. 497-507
• Idioma: inglés
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  • In this study, the microbial community in a mangrove ecosystem was surveyed and used to test the eligibility of 16S rDNA library and neighbor-joining method for the purpose of estimating microbial composition. Genetic diversity (π) and four other diversity indices (Simpson’s unbiased, Shannon-Wiener, Evenness, and Chao1 indices) were applied to estimate the adaptive lineages of microorganisms in the mangrove ecosystem. The results indicated that γ-Proteobacteria is the most diverse taxon, while the most abundant family is Rhodobacteraceae (α-Proteobacteria), followed by Comamonadaceae (β-Proteobacteria). This result may imply the existence of a graded distribution of microbial diversity across a spectrum of different salinities in the waterbody of this estuary ecosystem. Furthermore, at least 500–1,000 bps of the posterior portion of 16S rDNA is required as a marker to profile the microbial diversity in a microcosm of interest using phylogenetic methods, according to the results of our sliding window analyses for the measurements of π, consistency index, and retention index.