Project description:Functional redundancy in bacterial communities is expected to allow microbial assemblages to survive perturbation by allowing continuity in function despite compositional changes in communities. Recent evidence suggests, however, that microbial communities change both composition and function as a result of disturbance. We present evidence for a third response: resistance. We examined microbial community response to perturbation caused by nutrient enrichment in salt marsh sediments using deep pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA and functional gene microarrays targeting the nirS gene. Composition of the microbial community, as demonstrated by both genes, was unaffected by significant variations in external nutrient supply, despite demonstrable and diverse nutrient–induced changes in many aspects of marsh ecology. The lack of response to external forcing demonstrates a remarkable uncoupling between microbial composition and ecosystem-level biogeochemical processes and suggests that sediment microbial communities are able to resist some forms of perturbation.

2010-11-13 | GSE25227 | GEO

Pharmaceutical degrading enrichment cultures

Project description:Pharmaceutical degrading enrichment cultures Raw sequence reads

| PRJNA782474 | ENA

Oleate-degrading enrichment cultures

Project description:Methanogenic and non-methanogenic oleate-degrading enrichment cultures

| PRJEB25834 | ENA