Metataxonomics for the Micro-plastic and other Particle Attached Habitats in the Northeastern Mediterranean Sea

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2018-07-20

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Küçükavşar, Selin
Gökdağ, Kerem
Kıdeyş, Ahmet Erkan
Karahan, Arzu

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Plastic now pollutes every corner of earth and it is one of the major environmental problems of nowadays. Beside of being directly harmful as a mimic of food sources of marine organisms, as being suitable substrate for different kind of microbes they have also indirect damage. Metataxonomics analysis using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology have revealed numerous previously unrecognized microorganisms. In the present study, micro-plastic attached bacterial community of samples taken from four different depths (0, 25, 150, 200 m) from a North-eastern Mediterranean offshore station (200 m) were investigated using metataxonomics amplicon sequencing technique. Targeted marine samples were micro-plastic attached microorganisms, but because of the limited evidence it has been called as Micro-plastic and other particle attached habitats. Those samples also compared with free-living organisms in the area. About 664 Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs-sequence variants) from 65,457 sequences were observed for all the depths. Caulobacteraceae was the most dominant order in the micro-plastic particle attached marine environment, which the members of taxa are usually known to be biofilm colonizer whereas, SAR 11 clade found to be abundant in the free-living community. Another common bacterium for marine environment was Phenylobacterium that degrades the Chloridazon herbicide and Acinetobacter junii which was shown to have the ability todegrade biodegradable plastic. This is a first study using a culture-independent approach for identify the North-eastern Mediterranean free-living and micro-plastic particle-attached marine microorganisms.

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16S rDNA, Metataxonomics, Micro-plastic, Particle-attached

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/71906
http://eebst.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Abstract_book_ed_3.pdf

Conference Name

5th Ecology And Evolutionary Biology Symposium (18 -20 July 2018)

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Graduate School of Marine Sciences, Conference / Seminar

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Citation Formats

S. Küçükavşar, K. Gökdağ, A. E. Kıdeyş, and A. Karahan, “Metataxonomics for the Micro-plastic and other Particle Attached Habitats in the Northeastern Mediterranean Sea,” Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, İzmir, Türkiye, 2018, p. 9, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/71906.