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- Scientists studied the tiny living things in seawater and groundwater near Zhuhai City by looking at their DNA.
- They found that in seawater, most of these tiny organisms were from a group called Proteobacteria, while in groundwater, a different group called Archaeon was more common.
- The bacteria in the groundwater can break down waste and clean water, showing that this area has characteristics of both land and ocean over time.
Article Abstract
By constructing 16S rDNA clone library with PCR-RFLP, the prokaryote diversity in the seawater and groundwater of land-ocean ecotone of Zhuhai City was investigated, and the similarity and cluster analyses were implemented with the database of the sequences in Genbank. In the seawater, Proteobacteria was dominant, followed by Archaeon, Gemmatimonadetes, Candidate division OP3 and OP8, and Planctomycetes, etc.; while in the groundwater, Archaeon was dominant, followed by Proteobacteria, Sphingobacteria, Candidate division OP3, Actinobacterium, and Pseudomonas. The dominant taxa in the groundwater had high similarity to the unculturable groups of marine microorganisms. Large amount of bacteria capable of degrading organic matter and purifying water body existed in the groundwater, suggesting that after long-term evolution, the land-ocean ecotone of Zhuhai City had the characteristics of both land and ocean.
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Article Synopsis
- Scientists studied the tiny living things in seawater and groundwater near Zhuhai City by looking at their DNA.
- They found that in seawater, most of these tiny organisms were from a group called Proteobacteria, while in groundwater, a different group called Archaeon was more common.
- The bacteria in the groundwater can break down waste and clean water, showing that this area has characteristics of both land and ocean over time.
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