Discordant patterns between nitrogen-cycling functional traits and taxa in distant coastal sediments reveal important community assembly mechanisms.

Wen Song, Hongjun Li, Yuqi Zhou, Xia Liu, Yueyue Li, Mengqi Wang, Dan-Dan Li, Qichao Tu

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Wen Song *Institute of Marine Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China.

Hongjun Li *State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Coastal Ecosystem, National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, Dalian, China.

Yuqi ZhouInstitute of Marine Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China.

Xia LiuInstitute of Marine Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China.

Yueyue LiInstitute of Marine Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China.

Mengqi WangInstitute of Marine Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China.

Dan-Dan LiInstitute of Marine Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China.

Qichao TuInstitute of Marine Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao, China.

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A central question in microbial ecology is how immense microbes are assembled in changing natural environments while executing critical ecosystem functions. Over the past decade, effort has been made to unravel the contribution of stochasticity and determinism to the compositional of microbial communities. However, most studies focus on microbial taxa, ignoring the importance of functional traits. By employing shotgun metagenomic sequencing and state-of-the-art bioinformatics approaches, this study comprehensively investigated the microbially mediated nitrogen (N) cycling processes in two geographically distant coastal locations. Both shotgun and 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing demonstrated significantly differed taxonomic compositions between the two sites. The relative abundance of major microbial phyla, such as

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coastal sedimentscommunity assemblyfunctional traitsmicrobial communitiesnitrogen cyclingtaxonomic groups

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PMID38053549

DOI10.3389/fmicb.2023.1291242

PMCPMC10694361

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