Salinity and Time Can Alter Epibacterial Communities of an Invasive Seaweed
fmicb-10-02870 January 6, 2020 Time: 15:52 # 1 ORIGINAL RESEARCH published: 15 January 2020 doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02870 Salinity and Time Can Alter Epibacterial Communities of an Invasive Seaweed Mahasweta Saha1,2,3*, Robert M. W. Ferguson2, Shawn Dove4,5, Sven Künzel6, Rafael Meichssner7,8, Sven C. Neulinger9, Finn Ole Petersen10 and Florian Weinberger1 1 Benthic Ecology, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany, 2 The School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom, 3 Marine Ecology and Biodiversity, Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth, United Kingdom, 4 Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, University College London, London, United Kingdom, 5 Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, London, United Kingdom, 6 Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany, 7 Department of Biology, Botanical Institute, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany, 8 Coastal Research & Management, Kiel, Germany, 9 omics2view.consulting GbR, Kiel, Germany, 10 Department of Biology, Institute for General Microbiology, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel, Germany The establishment of epibacterial communities is fundamental to seaweed health and Edited by: fitness, in modulating ecological interactions and may also facilitate adaptation to Olga Lage, University of Porto, Portugal new environments. Abiotic factors like salinity can determine bacterial abundance, Reviewed by: growth and community composition. However, influence of salinity as a driver of Hanzhi Lin, epibacterial community composition (until species level) has not been investigated for University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES), seaweeds and especially under long time scales. We also do not know how abiotic United States stressors may influence the ‘core’ bacterial species of seaweeds.
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