Publications by authors named "Augusto Passarelli"
Article Synopsis
- The NEREA initiative focuses on creating an augmented observatory in the Gulf of Naples to improve our understanding of marine ecosystems through a comprehensive approach.
- It combines traditional research methods with advanced techniques like metabarcoding and metagenomics, building on past expeditions and research sites.
- In its first 10 months (April 2019 to January 2020), NEREA collected extensive data on physical and chemical parameters, plankton biodiversity, and genetics, resulting in significant insights into marine ecosystems.
Bacterioplankton are fundamental components of marine ecosystems and influence the entire biosphere by contributing to the global biogeochemical cycles of key elements. Yet, there is a significant gap in knowledge about their diversity and specific activities, as well as environmental factors that shape their community composition and function. Here, the distribution and diversity of surface bacterioplankton along the coastline of the Gulf of Naples (GON; Italy) were investigated using flow cytometry coupled with high-throughput sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene.
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