Surface Bacterioplankton Community Structure Crossing the Antarctic Circumpolar Current Fronts
, Matteo Selci 1,†, Bernardo Barosa 1, Alessia Bastianoni 1, Deborah Bastoni 1, Francesco Bolinesi 1, Rosaria Capuozzo 1, Martina Cascone 1, Monica Correggia 1, Davide Corso 1, Luciano Di Iorio 1, Cristina Misic 2, Francesco Montemagno 1, Annarita Ricciardelli 1, Maria Saggiomo 3, Luca Tonietti 1,4, Olga Mangoni 1,5 and Donato Giovannelli 1,6,7,8,9
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Dear authors:
The manuscript is very well written and here are only some suggestions to finish the text.
Line 30 – include in the abstract the year of the data sampling (2017). There are two dots at the phrase end.
Keywords – delete “Antarctic Circumpolar Fronts” since it is present on the title.
Line 197 – I could not access the site https://github.com/giovannel-
lilab/Cordone_et_al_Southern_Ocean_microbial_diversity. May be because of internet quality here in Antarctica, but please check.
Figure 1 could be larger, being an option to put the sections A and B one above the other. In all the Tables it is important to show the abbreviation in a legend below tables.
Figure 3 – in the legend it is important to explain what is A, B and C and in Lines 237 and 248 refer to them as (Figure 3A) and (Figure 3B).
Figure 4 – Explain abbreviations.
Figure 5 – Explain abbreviations.
Line 288 – change “...is among one of the...” to “ … is the… ”.
Line 358 – change “Taxa” to “taxa”.
Line 371 – include “(Italy)” after the “Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca”.
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