Bottled aqua incognita: Microbiota assembly and dissolved organic matter diversity in natural mineral waters
C. C. Lesaulnier, C. W. Herbold, C. Pelikan, D. Berry, C. Gerard, X. Le Coz, S. Gagnot, J. Niggemann, T. Dittmar, G. A. Singer, A. Loy
This study investigates microbiota and dissolved organic matter (DOM) in bottled natural mineral waters, finding that a low-diversity bacterial community thrives on refractory DOM molecules.
bioRxiv · Jun 23, 2017Microbiology