Microcystin drives the composition of small-sized bacterioplankton communities from a coastal lagoon

Constructed wetland mesocosms improve the biodegradation of microcystin-LR and cylindrospermopsin by indigenous bacterial consortia

“…Therefore, the change in the relative community abundance was due to the increased proliferation of species potentially involved in the degradation of the cyanotoxin extracts. Recent studies have shown that bacterial communities degrading MC often have a large enrichment of Methylophilaceae (Methylophilales) (Mou et al, 2013;Wang et al, 2018;Cheng et al, 2021;Santos et al, 2022) supporting the finding in the present study (Fig. 4C).…”