Studies of bacterioplankton community in intensive shrimp aquaculture systems

Bacterioplankton play an integral role in aquaculture systems, but our understanding of the succession of bacterioplankton community along intensive shrimp cultivation is fragmentary. Here we used Illumina Miseq Pyrosequencing technique to study the dynamics of bacterioplankton community during the process of intensive shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) cultivation.