Journal Article
Mycoplanktonic Community Structure and Their Roles in Monitoring Environmental Changes in a Subtropical Estuary in the Beibu Gulf
Jiongqing Huang; Huaxian Zhao; Shu Yang; Xinyi Qin; Nengjian Liao; Xiaoli Li; Qiuyan Wei; Wenjing Li; Gonglingxia Jiang; Nan Li; Pengbin Wang
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering · Vol. 10, Issue 12 · pp. 1940 · 2022
Abstract
Mycoplankton are an important component of marine ecosystems and play a key role in material cycling and energy flow in marine ecosystems. In this study, high-throughput sequencing of the 18S rDNA gene was employed to investigate the community structure of mycoplankton during summer and winter and their response to environmental changes in the Dafengjiang River estuary in the Beibu Gulf, Guangxi. The mycoplanktonic community was generally dominated by Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, and Cryptomycota. However, there were significant seasonal differences in the α-diversity of the mycoplanktonic community (p