Characteristics of SOB community in Sediments from the East China Sea by high-throughput sequencing
Sulfur-oxidizing bacteria (SOB) play vital roles in both sulfur and carbon cycles. The sulfur-oxidizing (Sox) multienzyme system is considered a fundamental and primordial molecular mechanism for sulfur oxidation and widespread among the known SOB. Moreover, the soxB gene, which encodes the SoxB subunit of the Sox enzyme system, has been widely employed to characterize the abundance and diversity of SOB in various environments. In the present study, Illumina HiSeq2500 sequencing of the soxB gene was performed on East China Sea sediments to study the community structure and diversity of SOB. 