“…Among the non-shared Bacteroidetes genera or groups, the NS5 marine group, Polaribacter, Pseudarcicella, and Fluviicola (a typical freshwater genus) characterized water samples, whereas Lutimonas and Maribacter were retrieved in sediments. A number of authors have reported on the dominance of flavobacterial phylotypes responding to phytoplankton blooms, with the succession of particular clades (including Ulvibacter spp., Polaribacter spp., and NS5 marine clades) and the progressive consumption of the algal-derived organic matter [44,45]. In this study, the NS5 marine group was found at very high percentages, also at inner stations, and its co-occurrence with some clades cited above was especially evident at the middle station 9w, suggesting that an algal bloom was present at sampling time.…”