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SUBMITTER: Mahmoudi N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4399438 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mahmoudi Nagissa N Robeson Michael S MS Castro Hector F HF Fortney Julian L JL Techtmann Stephen M SM Joyner Dominique C DC Paradis Charles J CJ Pfiffner Susan M SM Hazen Terry C TC
FEMS microbiology ecology 20141205 1
The Caspian Sea is heavily polluted due to industrial and agricultural effluents as well as extraction of oil and gas reserves. Microbial communities can influence the fate of contaminants and nutrients. However, insight into the microbial ecology of the Caspian Sea significantly lags behind other marine systems. Here we describe microbial biomass, diversity and composition in sediments collected from three sampling stations in the Caspian Sea. Illumina sequencing of 16S rRNA genes revealed the ...[more]