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Published on: April 19, 2018
Comparison of bacterioplankton communities in three heavily polluted streams in China
Yi Huang1, Li Zou, ShuYing Zhang
1College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
Objective:
To compare the bacterioplankton communities in streams exposed to pollution of different types.
Methods:
The bacterioplankton communities in three selected heavily polluted streams were investigated by using terminal-restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis in combination with 16S rRNA gene clone library analysis.
Results:
Both T-RFLP and 16S rRNA gene clone library revealed a great difference in bacterioplankton community composition in the different streams.
Conclusion:
This work might provide some new insights into bioremediation of heavily polluted streams.
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