ena-STUDY-Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR/CIMAR)-19-07-2019-19:02:28:653-1719
Next-generation sequencing monitoring of marine biofouling diversity
In this work we implemented a marine biofouling monitoring strategy over a period of one year in the Porto of Leixões harbor in Northern Portugal using morphological and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS). A multi-marker approach, i.e. 16S rRNA 18S rRNA, 23S rRNA and COI revealed a dominance of hard-foulers organisms: specifically, barnacles and mussels and allowed for the detection of a total of 300 bacterial and of 611 eukaryote species. This biofouling monitoring program also resulted in the identification of non-indigenous species (NIS).
In this work we implemented a marine biofouling monitoring strategy over a period of one year in the Porto of Leixões harbor in Northern Portugal using morphological and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS). A multi-marker approach, i.e. 16S rRNA 18S rRNA, 23S rRNA and COI revealed a dominance of hard-foulers organisms: specifically, barnacles and mussels and allowed for the detection of a total of 300 bacterial and of 611 eukaryote species. This biofouling monitoring program also resulted in the identification of non-indigenous species (NIS).