Deep-sea anthropogenic macrodebris harbours rich and diverse communities of bacteria and archaea

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0206220
• Publication Date: 2018-11-28T18:32:55Z
• Authors: Lucy C. Woodall; Anna D. Jungblut; Kevin Hopkins; Andie Hall; Laura F. Robinson; Claire Gwinnett; Gordon L. J. Pate...
• Keywords: Biome

The deep sea is the largest biome on earth, and microbes dominate in biomass abundance. Anthropogenic litter now almost ubiquitous this biome, its deposition creates new habitats environments, including for microbial assemblages. With ever increasing accumulation of debris, it timely to identify describe bacterial archaeal communities that are able form biofilms macrodebris sea. Using 16S rRNA gene high throughput sequencing, we show first time composition bacteria archaea collected from Our data suggest differences assemblage across different materials metal, rubber, glass, fabric plastic. These results imply anthropogenic provide diverse each may harbour distinct communities.