Microbial diversity in the hydrate-containing and-free surface sediments in the Shenhu area, South China Sea

作     者：Lu Jiao Xin Su Yuanyuan Wang Hongchen Jiang Yong Zhang Fang Chen 

作者机构：State Key Laboratory of Biogeology and Environmental Geology China University of Geosciences School of Ocean Sciences China University of Geosciences Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey 

出 版 物：《Geoscience Frontiers》 (地学前缘（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2015年第6卷第4期

页      面：627-633页

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学科分类：08[工学] 0824[工学-船舶与海洋工程] 

基　　金：supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2009CB219502) National Gas Hydrate Major Project(Grant No.GZH201100305-06-02) 

主　　题：Microbial diversityGas hydrateSediments Shenhu areaSouth China Sea 

摘      要：Microbial diversity in the hydrate-containing （sites SH3B and SH7B） and -free （sites SHIB, SH5B, SH5C） sediments collected from the Shenhu area of the South China Sea （SCS） was investigated using 16S rRNA gene phylogenetic analysis. The phylogenetic results indicate difference in microbial communities be- tween hydrate-containing and -free sediments. At the gas hydrate-containing sites, bacterial communities were dominated by Deltaproteobacteria （30.5%）, and archaeal communities were dominated by Miscellaneous Crenarchaeotic Group （33.8%）; In contrast, Planctomycetes was the major group （43.9%） in bacterial communities, while Marine Benthic Group-D （MBG-D） （32.4%） took up the largest proportion in the archaeal communities. Moreover, the microbial communities have characteristics different from those in other hydrate-related sediments around the world, indicating that the presence of hydrates can affect the microbial distribution. In addition, the microbial community composition in the studied sediments has its own uniqueness, which may result from co-effect of geochemical characteristics and presence/absence of hydrate.