Bacteria colonizing leaves and cotton in an urban stream

We incubated cotton strips and leaves from four tree species in the Chicago River for 14 and 28 days and analyzed bacterial assemblages that colonized the substrates using 16S amplicon sequencing.

我们将四种树木的叶片与棉条置于芝加哥河（Chicago River）中，分别开展14天与28天的孵育培养，并通过16S扩增子测序（16S amplicon sequencing）分析了定殖于该实验基质的细菌群落。