“…The results indicated that the Cytophaga-Flavobacter-Bacteroidetes group, Alphaproteobacteria, and Betaproteobacteria were abundant (Hempel et al, 2009). Currently, 16S rRNA gene high-throughput sequencing is the routine method used to study the epiphytic bacterial communities of submerged macrophytes, such as Myriophyllum verticillatum, H. verticillata, V. natans, M. spicatum, P. malaianus, P. lucens, among others (Han et al, 2019;Liu et al, 2019Liu et al, , 2020Yan et al, 2019;He et al, 2020). Previous studies suggested that several factors, such as the plant species, water environment, sampling sites and growing season, affected the composition of the epiphytic bacterial community on submerged macrophytes (Hempel et al, 2009;Cai et al, 2013;He et al, 2020).…”