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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 707, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.136116
Keywords
Sediment; Metal; High throughput sequencing; Metagenome
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41822706, 41473096, 41603083]
- Beijing Natural Science Foundation [8182034]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [FRF-TP-19-001C1]
- Program for Innovative Research Team in Anqing Normal University (Pollution Ecology in the Wetland)
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Some metallic tailings from closed mines were scattered in upstream of the Miyun Reservoir, Beijing, threatening the ecological environment of rivers due to trace metals. The Liuli River, one of the main rivers affected, was investigated as a typical model in this work. In this study, we selected eight sites to assess interactions among the various geochemical factors especially between trace metals and sediment microbiota. Random forest predicted that low concentrations of Cu, Cd, Cr and Ni (lower than 61.8 mg/kg, 3.2 mg/kg, 173.2 mg/kg and 34.1 mg/kg, respectively) were able to enhance community diversity but generally, trace metals contamination impaired microbial diversity. Environmental factor correlation analysis showed that As, pH and available P were the major factors that shifted the distribution of the microbial communities. Metagenome sequencing revealed that Proteobacteria harbored the vast majority of heavy metal resistance genes followed by Actinobacteria and Bacteroidetes. Metal tolerance of Proteobacteria were achieved by exportation of metals by the corresponding transporters, by pumps and ion channels, or by their reduction via redox reactions. In addition, Proteobacteria harbored a greater ability to repair DNA damage via DNA recombination. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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