Phylogenetic analysis of bacterial community composition in sediment contaminated with multiple heavy metals from the Xiangjiang River in China
2013
Zhu, Jianyu | Zhang, Jingxia | Li, Qian | Han, Tao | Xie, Jianping | Hu, Yuehua | Chai, Liyuan
Understanding the ecology of sediments that are contaminated with heavy metals is critical for bioremediating these sediments, which has become a public concern over the course of the development of modern industry. To investigate the bacterial community composition of sediments that are contaminated with heavy metals in the Xiangjiang River, a total of four sediment samples contaminated with multiple heavy metals were obtained, and a culture-independent molecular analysis, polymerase chain reaction–restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR–RFLP), was performed. The results revealed that heavy metal pollution affected the sediment microbial community diversity, and the greatest species diversity appeared in the moderately polluted sediment X sample. The dominant family in these sediments includes α-Proteobacteria, β-Proteobacteria and Firmicutes. Moreover, α-Proteobacteria was significantly increased with increases in heavy metal. A redundancy analysis (RDA) also confirmed this phenomenon.
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