Community structure and distribution of benthic Bacteria and Archaea in a stratified coastal lagoon in the Southern Gulf of Mexico

Coastal lagoons are important aquatic systems with strong physicochemical gradients, where the participation of microorganisms in biogeochemical cycles has been well recognised; however, to date, the microbial diversity and distribution in these environments remains under-investigated. Here, three distinguished regions (oligohaline, marine and the mixing) of a transitional coastal lagoon were explored to characterise the structure and...