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| Title |
Egypt's Red Sea coast: phylogenetic analysis of cultured microbial consortia in industrialized sites
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Microbiology, August 2014
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| DOI | 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00363 |
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| Authors |
Ghada A. Mustafa, Amr Abd-Elgawad, Alyaa M. Abdel-Haleem, Rania Siam |
| Abstract |
The Red Sea possesses a unique geography, and its shores are rich in mangrove, macro-algal and coral reef ecosystems. Various sources of pollution affect Red Sea biota, including microbial life. We assessed the effects of industrialization on microbes along the Egyptian Red Sea coast at eight coastal sites and two lakes. The bacterial communities of sediment samples were analyzed using bacterial 16S rDNA pyrosequencing of V6-V4 hypervariable regions. The taxonomic assignment of 131,402 significant reads to major bacterial taxa revealed five main bacterial phyla dominating the sampled sites: Proteobacteria (68%), Firmicutes (13%), Fusobacteria (12%), Bacteriodetes (6%), and Spirochetes (0.03%). Further analysis revealed distinct bacterial consortia that primarily included (1) marine Vibrio spp.-suggesting a "marine Vibrio phenomenon"; (2) potential human pathogens; and (3) oil-degrading bacteria. We discuss two divergent microbial consortia that were sampled from Solar Lake West near Taba/Eilat and Saline Lake in Ras Muhammad; these consortia contained the highest abundance of human pathogens and no pathogens, respectively. Our results draw attention to the effects of industrialization on the Red Sea and suggest the need for further analysis to overcome the hazardous effects observed at the impacted sites. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Luxembourg | 1 | 25% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 25% |
| Unknown | 2 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 50% |
| Scientists | 1 | 25% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 25% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 44 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 10 | 23% |
| Researcher | 7 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 6 | 14% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 4 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 3 | 7% |
| Other | 5 | 11% |
| Unknown | 9 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 11 | 25% |
| Environmental Science | 8 | 18% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 6 | 14% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 2 | 5% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 2 | 5% |
| Other | 5 | 11% |
| Unknown | 10 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 May 2016.
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