Agricultural and Biological Sciences: Aquatic Science
; Earth and Planetary Sciences: Oceanography
; Environmental Science: Pollution
英文摘要:
Corals harbor abundant and diverse prokaryotic communities that may be strongly influenced by human activities, which in turn compromise the normal functioning of coral species and predispose them to opportunistic infections. In this study, we investigated the effect of sewage dumping on the bacterial communities associated with the soft coral Palythoa caribaeorum at two sites in the Brazilian coast. We observed a dominance of bacterial species classified as human pathogens at sites exposed to untreated sewage discharge. The microbial diversity of undisturbed sites was more homogeneous and diverse and showed greater abundance. In addition, bacterial communities differed substantially between the exposed and undisturbed areas. The microbial community associated with the samples collected from the exposed sites revealed the anthropogenic effect caused by organic matter from untreated sewage dumping, with an abundance of pathogenic bacterial species. � 2016 Elsevier Ltd
Programa de P�s-gradua��o em Diversidade Biol�gica e Conserva��o nos Tr�picos, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Campus A. C. Sim�es, Av. Lourival Melo Mota, s/n, Macei�, AL CEP, Brazil; Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Campus Arapiraca, Av. Manoel Severino Barbosa, s/n, Arapiraca, AL CEP, Brazil; Ren� Rachou Research Center (CPqRR-FIOCRUZ), Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Campus A. C. Sim�es, Av. Lourival Melo Mota, s/n, Macei�, AL CEP, Brazil
Recommended Citation:
Paulino G.V.B.,Broetto L.,Pylro V.S.,et al. Compositional shifts in bacterial communities associated with the coral Palythoa caribaeorum due to anthropogenic effects[J]. Marine Pollution Bulletin,2017-01-01,114(2)