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Mukherjee I, Grujčić V, Salcher MM, Znachor P, Seďa J, Devetter M, Rychtecký P, Šimek K, Shabarova T. Integrating depth-dependent protist dynamics and microbial interactions in spring succession of a freshwater reservoir. ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOME 2024; 19:31. [PMID: 38720385 PMCID: PMC11080224 DOI: 10.1186/s40793-024-00574-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2023] [Accepted: 04/30/2024] [Indexed: 05/12/2024]
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BACKGROUND Protists are essential contributors to eukaryotic diversity and exert profound influence on carbon fluxes and energy transfer in freshwaters. Despite their significance, there is a notable gap in research on protistan dynamics, particularly in the deeper strata of temperate lakes. This study aimed to address this gap by integrating protists into the well-described spring dynamics of Římov reservoir, Czech Republic. Over a 2-month period covering transition from mixing to established stratification, we collected water samples from three reservoir depths (0.5, 10 and 30 m) with a frequency of up to three times per week. Microbial eukaryotic and prokaryotic communities were analysed using SSU rRNA gene amplicon sequencing and dominant protistan groups were enumerated by Catalysed Reporter Deposition-Fluorescence in situ Hybridization (CARD-FISH). Additionally, we collected samples for water chemistry, phyto- and zooplankton composition analyses. RESULTS Following the rapid changes in environmental and biotic parameters during spring, protistan and bacterial communities displayed swift transitions from a homogeneous community to distinct strata-specific communities. A prevalence of auto- and mixotrophic protists dominated by cryptophytes was associated with spring algal bloom-specialized bacteria in the epilimnion. In contrast, the meta- and hypolimnion showcased a development of a protist community dominated by putative parasitic Perkinsozoa, detritus or particle-associated ciliates, cercozoans, telonemids and excavate protists (Kinetoplastida), co-occurring with bacteria associated with lake snow. CONCLUSIONS Our high-resolution sampling matching the typical doubling time of microbes along with the combined microscopic and molecular approach and inclusion of all main components of the microbial food web allowed us to unveil depth-specific populations' successions and interactions in a deep lentic ecosystem.
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- Indranil Mukherjee
- Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Na Sádkách 7, 37005, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.
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- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Na Sádkách 7, 37005, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
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- Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Na Sádkách 7, 37005, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, 37005, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
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- Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Na Sádkách 7, 37005, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
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- Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Na Sádkách 7, 37005, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
- Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Soil Biology and Biogeochemistry, Na Sádkách 7, 37005, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
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- Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Na Sádkách 7, 37005, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
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- Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Na Sádkách 7, 37005, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, 37005, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
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- Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Hydrobiology, Na Sádkách 7, 37005, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.
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Wu Q, Yu C, Liu Y, Xing P, Li H, Li B, Wan S, Wu QL. Microcystis blooms caused the decreasing richness of and interactions between free-living microbial functional genes in Lake Taihu, China. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2024; 100:fiad166. [PMID: 38148131 PMCID: PMC10795575 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiad166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2023] [Revised: 11/17/2023] [Accepted: 12/23/2023] [Indexed: 12/28/2023] Open
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Microcystis blooms have a marked effect on microbial taxonomical diversity in eutrophic lakes, but their influence on the composition of microbial functional genes is still unclear. In this study, the free-living microbial functional genes (FMFG) composition was investigated in the period before Microcystis blooms (March) and during Microcystis blooms (July) using a comprehensive functional gene array (GeoChip 5.0). The composition and richness of FMFG in the water column was significantly different between these two periods. The FMFG in March was enriched in the functional categories of nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus cycling, whereas the FMFG in July was enriched in carbon cycling, organic remediation, and metal homeostasis. Molecular ecological network analysis further demonstrated fewer functional gene interactions and reduced complexity in July than in March. Module hubs of the March network were mediated by functional genes associated with carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus, whereas those in July by a metal homeostasis functional gene. We also observed stronger deterministic processes in the FMFG assembly in July than in March. Collectively, this study demonstrated that Microcystis blooms induced significant changes in FMFG composition and metabolic potential, and abundance-information, which can support the understanding and management of biogeochemical cycling in eutrophic lake ecosystems.
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- Qiong Wu
- School of Life Sciences, Institute of Life Science and Green Development, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, China
- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Institute of Life Science and Green Development, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, China
- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Institute of Life Science and Green Development, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, China
- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
- The Fuxianhu Station of Deep Lake Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengjiang 652500, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Institute of Life Science and Green Development, Hebei University, Baoding, Hebei 071002, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
- Center for Evolution and Conservation Biology, Southern Marine Sciences and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou 511458, China
- Sino Danish Center for Education and Research, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Liu C, Wu F, Jiang X, Hu Y, Shao K, Tang X, Qin B, Gao G. Climate Change Causes Salinity To Become Determinant in Shaping the Microeukaryotic Spatial Distribution among the Lakes of the Inner Mongolia-Xinjiang Plateau. Microbiol Spectr 2023; 11:e0317822. [PMID: 37306569 PMCID: PMC10434070 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.03178-22] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2022] [Accepted: 05/06/2023] [Indexed: 06/13/2023] Open
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Climate change greatly affects lake microorganisms in arid and semiarid zones, which alters ecosystem functions and the ecological security of lakes. However, the responses of lake microorganisms, especially microeukaryotes, to climate change are poorly understood. Here, using 18S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) high-throughput sequencing, we investigated the distribution patterns of microeukaryotic communities and whether and how climate change directly or indirectly affected the microeukaryotic communities on the Inner Mongolia-Xinjiang Plateau. Our results showed that climate change, as the main driving force of lake change, drives salinity to become a determinant of the microeukaryotic community among the lakes of the Inner Mongolia-Xinjiang Plateau. Salinity shapes the diversity and trophic level of the microeukaryotic community and further affects lake carbon cycling. Co-occurrence network analysis further revealed that increasing salinity reduced the complexity but improved the stability of microeukaryotic communities and changed ecological relationships. Meanwhile, increasing salinity enhanced the importance of deterministic processes in microeukaryotic community assembly, and the dominance of stochastic processes in freshwater lakes transformed into deterministic processes in salt lakes. Furthermore, we established lake biomonitoring and climate sentinel models by integrating microeukaryotic information, which would provide substantial improvements to our predictive ability of lake responses to climate change. IMPORTANCE Our findings have important implications for understanding the distribution patterns and the driving mechanisms of microeukaryotic communities among the lakes of the Inner Mongolia-Xinjiang Plateau and whether and how climate change directly or indirectly affects microeukaryotic communities. Our study also establishes the groundwork to use the lake microbiome for the assessment of aquatic ecological health and climate change, which is critical for ecosystem management and for projecting the ecological consequences of future climate warming.
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- Changqing Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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Effects of Phycosphere Bacteria on Their Algal Host Are Host Species-Specific and Not Phylogenetically Conserved. Microorganisms 2022; 11:microorganisms11010062. [PMID: 36677355 PMCID: PMC9862884 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms11010062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2022] [Revised: 12/21/2022] [Accepted: 12/22/2022] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Phytoplankton is fundamental to life on Earth. Their productivity is influenced by the microbial communities residing in the phycosphere surrounding algal cells. Expanding our knowledge on how algal-bacterial interactions affect algal growth to more hosts and bacteria can help elucidate general principles of algal-host interactions. Here, we isolated 368 bacterial strains from phycosphere communities, right after phycosphere recruitment from pond water and after a month of lab cultivation and examined their impacts on growth of five green algal species. We isolated both abundant and rare phycosphere members, representing 18.4% of the source communities. Positive and neutral effects predominated over negative effects on host growth. The proportion of each effect type and whether the day of isolation mattered varied by host species. Bacteria affected algal carrying capacity more than growth rate, suggesting that nutrient remineralization and toxic byproduct metabolism may be a dominant mechanism. Across-host algal fitness assays indicated host-specific growth effects of our isolates. We observed no phylogenetic conservation of the effect on host growth among bacterial isolates. Even isolates with the same ASV had divergent effects on host growth. Our results emphasize highly specific host-bacterial interactions in the phycosphere and raise questions as to which mechanisms mediate these interactions.
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Sildever S, Nishi N, Inaba N, Asakura T, Kikuchi J, Asano Y, Kobayashi T, Gojobori T, Nagai S. Monitoring harmful microalgal species and their appearance in Tokyo Bay, Japan, using metabarcoding. METABARCODING AND METAGENOMICS 2022. [DOI: 10.3897/mbmg.6.79471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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During the recent decade, high-throughput sequencing (HTS) techniques, in particular, DNA metabarcoding, have facilitated increased detection of biodiversity, including harmful algal bloom (HAB) species. In this study, the presence of HAB species and their appearance patterns were investigated by employing molecular and light microscopy-based monitoring in Tokyo Bay, Japan. The potential co-appearance patterns between the HAB species, as well as with other eukaryotes and prokaryotes were investigated using correlation and association rule-based time-series analysis. In total, 40 unique HAB species were detected, including 12 toxin-producing HAB species previously not reported from the area. More than half of the HAB species were present throughout the sampling season (summer to autumn) and no structuring or succession patterns associated with the environmental conditions could be detected. Statistically significant (p < 0.05, rS ranging from −0.88 to 0.90) associations were found amongst the HAB species and other eukaryotic and prokaryotic species, including genera containing growth-limiting bacteria. However, significant correlations between species differed amongst the years, indicating that variability in environmental conditions between the years may have a stronger influence on the microalgal community structure and interspecies interactions than the variability during the sampling season. The association rule-based time-series analysis allowed the detection of a previously reported negative relationship between Synechococcus sp. and Skeletonema sp. in nature. Overall, the results support the applicability of metabarcoding and HTS-based microalgae monitoring, as it facilitates more precise species identification compared to light microscopy, as well as provides input for investigating potential interactions amongst different species/groups through simultaneous detection of multiple species/genera.
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Luo F, Chen H, Wu X, Liu L, Chen Y, Wang Z. Insights into the Seasonal Olfactory Mechanism of Geosmin in Raw Water of Huangpu River. TOXICS 2022; 10:485. [PMID: 36006164 PMCID: PMC9415234 DOI: 10.3390/toxics10080485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2022] [Revised: 08/09/2022] [Accepted: 08/17/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Since the 1990s, the raw water of Huangpu River in Shanghai, China, has intermittently encountered off-flavor contamination. In this work, the concentrations of typical odor, geosmin, in raw water of Huangpu River are found to shift along with the seasons. However, microbes recognized as the producer of geosmin such as Cyanobacteria and Actinobacteria are not consistent with the shift of geosmin. Cyanobacteria blooms in summer rather than winter, whereas Actinobacteria thrives in winter. Representational difference analysis (RDA) reveals that microbes associated with blooming algae have positive co-occurrence correlations with the concentrations of geosmin and nutrients in winter, whereas those within Cyanobacteria and Planctomycete are in a positive correlation with temperature and thrive in summer. This causes the concentration of geosmin in raw water to appear to depend on the abundance of Actinobacteria rather than that of Cyanobacteria. However, combining with the synthesis and storage properties of geosmin in algae, as well as the decomposition properties of algae with Actinobacteria, geosmin might be synthesized by Cyanobacteria in summer, which is stored in cells of Cyanobacteria and released only via the decomposition of Actinobacteria in winter. This potential olfactory mechanism of geosmin is quite different from that derived from pure culture of odor producers or correlation analysis of bacteria and odors; thus, providing insights into the mechanism of practical off-flavor events.
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- Fei Luo
- China-UK Low Carbon College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- China-UK Low Carbon College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Environmental Risk Assessment and Control on Chemical Process, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Environmental Risk Assessment and Control on Chemical Process, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
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- China-UK Low Carbon College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
- School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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Devotta DA, Kent AD, Nelson DM, Walsh PB, Fraterrigo JM, Hu FS. Effects of alder- and salmon-derived nutrients on aquatic bacterial community structure and microbial community metabolism in subarctic lakes. Oecologia 2022; 199:711-724. [PMID: 35739283 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-022-05207-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2021] [Accepted: 05/21/2022] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Alder (Alnus spp.) and Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) provide key nutrient subsidies to freshwater systems. In southwestern Alaska, alder-derived nutrients (ADNs) are increasing as alder cover expands in response to climate warming, while climate change and habitat degradation are reducing marine-derived nutrients (MDNs) in salmon-spawning habitats. To assess the relative influences of ADN and MDN on aquatic microbial community structure and function, we analyzed lake chemistry, bacterial community structure, and microbial metabolism in 13 lakes with varying alder cover and salmon abundance in southwestern Alaska. We conducted bioassays to determine microbial nutrient limitation and physical factors modulating microbial response to nutrient inputs (+N, +P and +NP treatments). Seasonal shifts in bacterial community structure (F = 7.47, P < 0.01) coincided with changes in lake nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) concentrations (r2 = 0.19 and 0.16, both P < 0.05), and putrescine degradation (r2 = 0.13, P = 0.06), suggesting the influx and microbial use of MDN. Higher microbial metabolism occurred in summer than spring, coinciding with salmon runs. Increased microbial metabolism occurred in lakes where more salmon spawned. Microbial metabolic activity was unrelated to alder cover, likely because ADN provides less resource diversity than MDN. When nutrients were added to spring samples, there was greater substrate use by microbial communities from lakes with elevated Chl a concentrations and large relative catchment areas (β estimates for all treatments > 0.56, all P < 0.07). Thus, physical watershed and lake features mediate the effects of nutrient subsidies on aquatic microbial metabolic activity.
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- Denise A Devotta
- Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
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- Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.,Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD, 21532, USA
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- Togiak National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Dillingham, AK, 99576, USA
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- Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.,Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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- Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.,Department of Plant Biology, Department of Geology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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Liu C, Wu F, Jiang X, Hu Y, Shao K, Tang X, Qin B, Gao G. Salinity Is a Key Determinant for the Microeukaryotic Community in Lake Ecosystems of the Inner Mongolia Plateau, China. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:841686. [PMID: 35495662 PMCID: PMC9039746 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.841686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2021] [Accepted: 03/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The arid and semiarid areas experienced remarkable lake shrinkage during recent decades due to intensive human activities and climate change, which would result in unprecedented changes of microeukaryotic communities. However, little is known about how climate change affects the structure and ecological mechanisms of microeukaryotic communities in this area. Here, we used an 18S rRNA gene-based high-throughput sequencing approach to explore the structure, interspecies interaction, and assembly processes of the microeukaryotic community in lake ecosystems of the Inner Mongolia Plateau. As a direct result of climate change, salinity has become the key determinant of the lacustrine microeukaryotic community in this region. The microeukaryotic community in this ecosystem can be divided into three groups: salt (Lake Daihai), brackish (Lake Dalinuoer) and freshwater lakes. Co-occurrence network analysis revealed that salinity shapes the interspecies interactions of the microeukaryotic community. This causes interspecies interactions to change from antagonistic to cooperative with an increase in salinity. Phylogenetic-based β-nearest taxon distance analyses revealed that stochastic processes mainly dominated the microeukaryotic community assembly in lake ecosystems of the Inner Mongolia Plateau, and salinity stress drove the assembly processes of the microeukaryotic community from stochastic to deterministic. Overall, these findings expand the current understanding of interspecies interactions and assembly processes of microeukaryotic communities during climate change in lake ecosystems of the Inner Mongolia Plateau.
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- Changqing Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Nanjing, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Nanjing, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Nanjing, China
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Geng M, Zhang W, Hu T, Wang R, Cheng X, Wang J. Eutrophication causes microbial community homogenization via modulating generalist species. WATER RESEARCH 2022; 210:118003. [PMID: 34982976 DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.118003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2021] [Revised: 12/14/2021] [Accepted: 12/21/2021] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Eutrophication substantially influences the community structure of aquatic organisms and has become a major threat to biodiversity. However, whether eutrophication is linked to homogenization of microbial communities and the possible underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Here, we studied bacterial and fungal communities from water and sediments of 40 shallow lakes in the Yangtze-Huaihe River basin, a representative area characterized by intensifying eutrophication in China, and further examined the beta diversity patterns and underlying mechanisms under eutrophication conditions. Our results indicate that eutrophication generally caused biotic homogenization of bacterial and fungal communities in both habitats showing decreased community variations for the sites with a higher trophic state index (TSI). In the two habitats, community dissimilarities were positively correlated with TSI changes for both taxonomic groups, while the local contribution to beta diversity (LCBD) remarkably declined with increasing TSI for the fungal community. These phenomena were consistent with the pivotal importance of the TSI in statistically accounting for beta diversity of bacterial and fungal communities in both habitats. In addition, we found that physicochemical factors such as water temperature and pH were also important for bacterial and fungal communities in water, while heavy metal elements were important for the communities in sediments. Interestingly, generalist species, rather than specialist species, were revealed to more dominantly affect the variations in beta diversity along the trophic gradient, which were quantified by Bray-Curtis dissimilarity and LCBD. Collectively, our findings reveal the importance of generalist species in contributing to the change of beta diversity of microbial communities along trophic gradients, which have profound implications for a comprehensive understanding of the effects of eutrophication on microbial community.
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- Mengdie Geng
- School of Environment and Civil Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China; State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; Center for the Pan-third Pole Environment, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- School of Environment and Civil Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
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Liu Q, Zhang H, Chang F, Xie P, Zhang Y, Wu H, Zhang X, Peng W, Liu F. eDNA revealed in situ microbial community changes in response to Trapa japonica in Lake Qionghai and Lake Erhai, southwestern China. CHEMOSPHERE 2022; 288:132605. [PMID: 34678346 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.132605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2021] [Revised: 10/12/2021] [Accepted: 10/16/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Trapa japonica was observed to have inhibiting effects and could be used as a potential environment-friendly control strategy for cyanobacterial blooms in freshwater. However, the changes and effecting mechanisms in eukaryotic and prokaryotic communities by T. japonica are not yet clear. In this study, the effects of T. japonica on microbial communities were assessed in Lake Qionghai and Lake Erhai by 18S rRNA and 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing, respectively. The results showed that T. japonica can improve biodiversity and change the microbial community structures to varying degrees in both lakes. The alpha diversity indexes of microbial communities (e.g., Shannon, Sobs, Ace and Chao 1) were higher in the water inhabited by T. japonica (TJ group) than the water uninhabited by T. japonica (control) (P < 0.05). The PCoA results suggested that the microbial community compositions differed between the two groups (PERMANOVA P = 0.001). In Lake Qionghai, the relative abundances of dominant taxa and nutrients level showed little differences between the two groups. These may result from the homogenous water condition in Lake Qionghai. While the genera Cyanobium_PCC-6307, the majority of Cyanobacteria, decreased significantly in TJ group than control according to 16S rRNA gene sequencing. In Lake Erhai, environmental variables were distinctly affected by T. japonica, which was found to drive Cryptophyceae to become the main taxa through taxonomic analysis of 18S rRNA. Based on 16S rRNA gene sequencing, T. japonica reduced the relative abundance of Cyanobacteria, such as Planktothrix_NIVA-CYA_15 and Cyanobium_PCC-6307, by enriching cyanobactericidal bacteria and growth-inhibiting bacteria (e.g., Limnohabitans and Flavobacterium) and changing environmental parameters. Our results revealed that T. japonica acts in shaping microbial communities in lakes on the community level, shedding new lights on eutrophication mitigation, one of the most serious global ecological problems we are facing.
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- Qi Liu
- Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650504, China
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- Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650504, China; CAS Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, 100101, China.
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- Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650504, China
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- Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650504, China
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- Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650504, China
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- Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650504, China
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- Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650504, China
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- Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650504, China
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- Institute for Ecological Research and Pollution Control of Plateau Lakes, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming, 650504, China
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Are Bacterio- and Phytoplankton Community Compositions Related in Lakes Differing in Their Cyanobacteria Contribution and Physico-Chemical Properties? Genes (Basel) 2021; 12:genes12060855. [PMID: 34199405 PMCID: PMC8227929 DOI: 10.3390/genes12060855] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2021] [Revised: 05/24/2021] [Accepted: 05/28/2021] [Indexed: 12/05/2022] Open
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Bacterioplankton community composition has become the center of research attention in recent years. Bacteria associated with toxic cyanobacteria blooms have attracted considerable interest. However, little is known about the environmental factors driving the bacteria community, including the impact of invasive cyanobacteria. Therefore, our aim has been to determine the relationships between heterotrophic bacteria and phytoplankton community composition across 24 Polish lakes with different contributions of cyanobacteria including the invasive species Raphidiopsis raciborskii. This analysis revealed that cyanobacteria were present in 16 lakes, while R. raciborskii occurred in 14 lakes. Our results show that bacteria communities differed between lakes dominated by cyanobacteria and lakes with minor contributions of cyanobacteria but did not differ between lakes with R. raciborskii and other lakes. Physical factors, including water and Secchi depth, were the major drivers of bacteria and phytoplankton community composition. However, in lakes dominated by cyanobacteria, bacterial community composition was also influenced by biotic factors such as the amount of R. raciborskii, chlorophyll-a and total phytoplankton biomass. Thus, our study provides novel evidence on the influence of environmental factors and R. raciborskii on lake bacteria communities.
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Zhang Y, Zuo J, Salimova A, Li A, Li L, Li D. Phytoplankton distribution characteristics and its relationship with bacterioplankton in Dianchi Lake. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2020; 27:40592-40603. [PMID: 32671704 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-020-10033-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2019] [Accepted: 07/06/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Phytoplankton and bacterioplankton perform important ecological functions in lake ecosystem. In this paper, the abundance and composition of phytoplankton and bacterioplankton at 13 sites of Dianchi lake during the wet and dry seasons were monitored, and the relationship between phytoplankton and bacterioplankton in this plateau lake was studied. Phytoplankton community structure analysis was carried out by ocular method, and bacterioplankton was investigated by high-throughput 16S rRNA gene Illumina sequencing. The relationship between phytoplankton and bacterioplankton was observed using redundancy analysis. The results showed that 87 species of phytoplankton belonging to 5 phyla and 29 genera were identified in Dianchi lake. Phytoplankton diversity and richness were higher in the wet season than those in the dry season. In the wet season, Cyanophyta was the dominant phylum whose density was 2.01 × 108 cells/L, accounting for more than 90% of the total algae, then followed by Chlorophyta, Bacillariophyta, Chrysophyta, and Cryptophyta. The spatial distribution of phytoplankton in the wet season and dry seasons showed significant differences. In the dry season, the north-central part of Dianchi lake was dominated by Limnothrix redekei and Microcystis minutissima of Cyanophyta, while Pseudanabaena moniliformis and Coelosphaerium nagelianum of Cyanophyta mainly was dominated in the south of Dianchi lake. In the wet season, Microcystis minutissima of Cyanophyta was the dominant species all the area, while Limnothrix redekei of Cyanophyta was second dominant. Proteobacteria and Bacteroidetes were the dominant phyla among bacterioplankton. The community structure of bacterioplankton was influenced by Cyanophyta and Bacillariophyta. Cyanophyta had a major influence on Pseudomonas, Acinetobacter of Proteobacteria, and Flavobacterium of Bacteroidetes. Bacillariophyta showed a strong correlation with Gemmobacter, Stenotrophomonas, and Aeromonas of Proteobacteria. Cyanophyta and Bacillariophyta produced the most significant impact on predicted functional genes of bacterioplankton, and the predicted functional genes of the samples were different in different seasons. Cell densities of Cyanophyta were positively related to metabolism-predicted functional genes of bacterioplankton. Bacillariophyta and Cryptophyta had an impact on most of the cellular processes and signaling predicted functional genes. Bacterioplankton-predicted functional gene information storage and processing were significantly affected by cell densities of Chlorophyta. Therefore, the analysis of the phytoplankton community and the bacterioplankton-predicted functional gene in Dianchi lake exerts a great significance in revealing the ecosystem function of plateau lakes and harmful algal bloom control.
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- Yu Zhang
- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control (SKLESPC), School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control (SKLESPC), School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China.
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control (SKLESPC), School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- Yunnan Environmental Monitoring Center Station, Yunnan, 650100, China
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- Kunming Science and Technology Co., Ltd, Yunnan, 650228, China
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- State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution Control (SKLESPC), School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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Schiaffino MR, Huber P, Sagua M, Sabio Y García CA, Reissig M. Covariation patterns of phytoplankton and bacterioplankton in hypertrophic shallow lakes. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2020; 96:5894912. [PMID: 32816009 DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiaa161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2020] [Accepted: 08/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The aim of this work was to assess the temporal patterns in the community composition of phytoplankton (PCC) and bacterioplankton (BCC) in two interconnected and hypertrophic Pampean shallow lakes in Argentina. Factors shaping their community dynamics and community temporal covariations were also analysed. We performed 4 years of seasonal samplings (2012-2016) and communities were studied by the Utermöhl approach (PCC) and Illumina MiSeq sequencing (BCC). We found marked seasonal variations in both communities and inter-annual variations with decreasing microbial community similarities during the study. We also observed covariation in community-level dynamics among PCC and BCC within and between shallow lakes. The within-lake covariations remained positive and significant, while controlling for the effects of intrinsic (environmental) and extrinsic (temporal and meteorological) factors, suggesting a community coupling mediated by intrinsic biotic interactions. Algal-bacterial associations between different taxa of phytoplankton and bacterioplankton within each lake were also found. PCC was mainly explained by pure regional extrinsic (17-21%) and intrinsic environmental (8-9%) factors, while BCC was explained by environmental (8-10%) and biotic interactions with phytoplankton (7-8%). Our results reveal that the influence of extrinsic regional factors can be channeled to bacterioplankton through both environmental (i.e. water temperature) and phytoplankton effects.
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- M R Schiaffino
- Departamento de Ciencias Básicas y Experimentales, Universidad Nacional del Noroeste de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Roque Sáenz Peña 456, 6000, Junín, Argentina.,Centro de Investigaciones y Transferencia del Noroeste de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (CITNOBA) - UNNOBA-UNSAdA-CONICET, Jorge Newbery 355, 6000, Junín, Argentina
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- Instituto Nacional de Limnología (INALI, CONICET-UNL), Colectora Ruta Nac. 168, Paraje El Pozo, 3000, Santa Fe, Argentina
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- Departamento de Ciencias Básicas y Experimentales, Universidad Nacional del Noroeste de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Roque Sáenz Peña 456, 6000, Junín, Argentina.,Centro de Investigaciones y Transferencia del Noroeste de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (CITNOBA) - UNNOBA-UNSAdA-CONICET, Jorge Newbery 355, 6000, Junín, Argentina
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- CONICET - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución de Buenos Aires (IEGEBA), Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Ciudad Universitaria - C1428EGA, Buenos Aires, Argentina.,Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Depto. Ecología, Genética y Evolución, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Ciudad Universitaria - C1428EGA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente (INIBIOMA), Universidad Nacional del Comahue - CONICET, Quintral 1250, 8400, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
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Xia P, Yan D, Sun R, Song X, Lin T, Yi Y. Community composition and correlations between bacteria and algae within epiphytic biofilms on submerged macrophytes in a plateau lake, southwest China. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2020; 727:138398. [PMID: 32335447 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2020] [Revised: 03/27/2020] [Accepted: 03/31/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Epiphytic biofilms are complex matrix-enclosed communities comprising large numbers of bacteria and algae, which play an important role in the biogeochemical cycles in aquatic systems. However, little is known about the correlations that occur between these communities or the relative impact of environmental factors on their composition. In this study, epiphytic biofilms on three different aquatic plants were sampled in a typical plateau lake (Caohai, southwest China) in July and November of 2018. Bacterial diversity was assessed using Miseq sequencing approaches and algal communities were assessed using light microscopy. Gammaproteobacteria (54.64%), Bacteroidetes (17.50%) and Firmicutes (13.99%) were the dominant bacterial taxa and Chlorophyta (47.62%), Bacillariophyta (28.57%) and Euglenophyta (19.05%) were the dominant algae. The alpha diversity values of the epiphytic bacterial and algal communities were greater during the macrophyte decline period (November) than during the growth period (July). Microbial community composition was significantly affected by abiotic factors (water temperature, NH4+, pH or TP) and biotic factors (algae or bacteria). Interestingly, in July and November, the epiphytic algal community dissimilarity was stronger than that observed for bacterial community dissimilarity, suggesting that bacterial community dissimilarity may increase more slowly with environmental change than algal community dissimilarity. Furthermore, association network analysis revealed complex correlations between algal biomass and bacteria phylotype, and that 67.83% of correlations were positive and 32.17% were negative. This may indicate that facilitative correlations between algae and bacteria are predominant in epiphytic biofilms. These results provide new information on algal-bacterial correlations as well as the possible mechanisms that drive variations in the microbial community in epiphytic biofilms in freshwater lakes.
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- Pinhua Xia
- Guizhou Key Laboratory for Mountainous Environmental Information and Ecological Protection, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550001, PR China
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- Guizhou Key Laboratory for Mountainous Environmental Information and Ecological Protection, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550001, PR China
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- College of Chemistry and Material, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, PR China
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- Guizhou Key Laboratory for Mountainous Environmental Information and Ecological Protection, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550001, PR China
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- Guizhou Key Laboratory for Mountainous Environmental Information and Ecological Protection, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550001, PR China
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- Guizhou Key Laboratory for Mountainous Environmental Information and Ecological Protection, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang 550001, PR China; The State Key Laboratory of Southwest Karst Mountain Biodiversity Conservation of Forestry and Grassland Administration, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, 550001, PR China.
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Somers DJ, Strock KE, Saros JE. Environmental Controls on Microbial Diversity in Arctic Lakes of West Greenland. MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 2020; 80:60-72. [PMID: 31848649 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-019-01474-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2018] [Accepted: 12/05/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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We assessed the microbial community structure of six arctic lakes in West Greenland and investigated relationships to lake physical and chemical characteristics. Lakes from the ice sheet region exhibited the highest species richness, while inland and plateau lakes had lower observed taxonomical diversity. Lake habitat differentiation during summer stratification appeared to alter within lake microbial community composition in only a subset of lakes, while lake variability across regions was a consistent driver of microbial community composition in these arctic lakes. Principal coordinate analysis revealed differentiation of communities along two axes: each reflecting differences in morphometric (lake surface area), geographic (latitude and distance from the ice sheet), physical lake variables (water clarity), and lakewater chemistry (dissolved organic carbon [DOC], dissolved oxygen [DO], total nitrogen [TN], and conductivity). Understanding these relationships between environmental variables and microbial communities is especially important as heterotrophic microorganisms are key to organic matter decomposition, nutrient cycling, and carbon flow through nutrient poor aquatic environments in the Arctic.
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- Dana J Somers
- Biology Department, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, USA.
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- Environmental Science Department, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, USA.
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- Climate Change Institute, School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
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Liu C, Shi X, Wu F, Zhang M, Gao G, Wu Q. Temporal patterns in the interaction between photosynthetic picoeukaryotes and their attached fungi in Lake Chaohu. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2020; 96:5859481. [DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiaa123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2020] [Accepted: 06/17/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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The combination of flow cytometric sorting and high-throughput sequencing revealed the broad existence of photosynthetic picoeukaryote attached fungi (PPE-attached fungi) in Lake Chaohu. The relative sequence abundance of attached fungi was negatively correlated with that of the photosynthetic picoeukaryotes (PPEs). PPE-attached fungal communities were mainly composed of Basidiomycota, Chytridiomycota and Ascomycota. Temperature, Si and PPE community structure are the most important driving factors for the temporal succession of PPE-attached fungal communities. In particular, PPE-attached fungi can be divided into three groups from high to low temperatures. Phylogenetic molecular ecological network results indicated that the connectivity and the total number of links in the network of the high-temperature group (> 21.82°C) are higher than those in the other two temperature groups (between 9.67 and 21.82°C, and < 9.67°C, respectively). Moreover, the interaction between PPE-attached fungi and the PPEs changed from antagonistic to cooperative, with the decline in temperature. The most abundant operational taxonomic units of PPE-attached fungi were affiliated with the Cladosporium, the most common saprophytic fungus, whereas most fungal hub taxa were Chytridiomycota, the main parasite fungi of phytoplankton.
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- Changqing Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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Bock C, Jensen M, Forster D, Marks S, Nuy J, Psenner R, Beisser D, Boenigk J. Factors shaping community patterns of protists and bacteria on a European scale. Environ Microbiol 2020; 22:2243-2260. [PMID: 32202362 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2018] [Accepted: 03/18/2020] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Factors shaping community patterns of microorganisms are controversially discussed. Physical and chemical factors certainly limit the survival of individual taxa and maintenance of diversity. In recent years, a contribution of geographic distance and dispersal barriers to distribution patterns of protists and bacteria has been demonstrated. Organismic interactions such as competition, predation and mutualism further modify community structure and maintenance of distinct taxa. Here, we address the relative importance of these different factors in shaping protists and bacterial communities on a European scale using high-throughput sequencing data obtained from lentic freshwater ecosystems. We show that community patterns of protists are similar to those of bacteria. Our results indicate that cross-domain organismic factors are important variables with a higher influence on protists as compared with bacteria. Abiotic physical and chemical factors also contributed significantly to community patterns. The contribution of these latter factors was higher for bacteria, which may reflect a stronger biogeochemical coupling. The contribution of geographical distance was similar for both microbial groups.
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- Christina Bock
- Biodiversity, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstr. 5, 45141, Essen, Germany
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- Biodiversity, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstr. 5, 45141, Essen, Germany
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- Department of Ecology, University of Kaiserslautern, Erwin-Schrödinger-Str. 14, 67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- Biodiversity, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstr. 5, 45141, Essen, Germany
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- Biodiversity, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstr. 5, 45141, Essen, Germany
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- Lake and Glacier Research, Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse 25, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Biodiversity, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstr. 5, 45141, Essen, Germany
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- Biodiversity, University of Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstr. 5, 45141, Essen, Germany
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Mayr MJ, Besemer K, Sieczko A, Demeter K, Peduzzi P. Bacterial community composition and function along spatiotemporal connectivity gradients in the Danube floodplain (Vienna, Austria). AQUATIC SCIENCES 2020; 82:28. [PMID: 32165802 PMCID: PMC7045780 DOI: 10.1007/s00027-020-0700-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/08/2019] [Accepted: 01/02/2020] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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It is well recognized that river-floodplain systems contribute significantly to riverine ecosystem metabolism, and that bacteria are key players in the aquatic organic carbon cycle, but surprisingly few studies have linked bacterial community composition (BCC), function and carbon quality in these hydrologically highly dynamic habitats. We investigated aquatic BCC and extracellular enzymatic activity (EEA) related to dissolved organic carbon quality and algae composition, including the impact of a major flood event in one of the last remaining European semi-natural floodplain-systems. We found that surface connectivity of floodplain pools homogenizes BCC and EEA, whereas low connectivity led to increased BCC and EEA heterogeneity, supported by their relationship to electrical conductivity, an excellent indicator for surface connection strength. Hydrogeochemical parameters best explained variation of both BCC and EEA, while the algal community and chromophoric DOM properties explained only minor fractions of BCC variation. We conclude that intermittent surface connectivity and especially permanent isolation of floodplain pools from the main river channel may severely alter BCC and EEA, with potential consequences for nutrient cycling, ecological services and greenhouse gas emissions. Disentangling microbial structure-function coupling is therefore crucial, if we are to understand and predict the consequences of human alterations on these dynamic systems.
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- Magdalena J. Mayr
- Department of Limnology and Oceanography, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Wien, Austria
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- WasserCluster Lunz, Dr. Carl Kupelwieser Promenade 5, 3293 Lunz Am See, Austria
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- Department of Limnology and Oceanography, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Wien, Austria
- Department of Thematic Studies–Environmental Change, Linköping University, Tema M, Campus Valla, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden
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- Department of Limnology and Oceanography, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Wien, Austria
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- Department of Limnology and Oceanography, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Wien, Austria
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Feng C, Jia J, Wang C, Han M, Dong C, Huo B, Li D, Liu X. Phytoplankton and Bacterial Community Structure in Two Chinese Lakes of Different Trophic Status. Microorganisms 2019; 7:microorganisms7120621. [PMID: 31783682 PMCID: PMC6956004 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms7120621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2019] [Revised: 11/20/2019] [Accepted: 11/25/2019] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Phytoplankton are the primary producers at the basis of aquatic food webs, and bacteria play an important role in energy flow and biochemical cycling in aquatic ecosystems. In this study, both the bacterial and phytoplankton communities were examined in the oligotrophic Lake Basomtso and the eutrophic Lake South (China). The results of this study showed that the phytoplankton density and diversity in the eutrophic lake were higher than those in the oligotrophic lake. Furthermore, Chlorophyta (68%) and Cryptophyta (24%) were the dominant groups in the eutrophic lake, while Bacillariophyta (95%) dominated in the oligotrophic lake. The bacterial communities in the waters and sediments of the two lakes were mainly composed of Proteobacteria (mean of 32%), Actinobacteria (mean of 25%), Bacteroidetes (mean of 12%), and Chloroflexi (mean of 6%). Comparative analysis showed that the abundance of bacteria in the eutrophic lake was higher than that in the oligotrophic lake (p < 0.05), but the bacterial diversity in the oligotrophic lake was higher than that in the eutrophic lake (p < 0.05). Finally, the bacterial abundance and diversity in the sediments of the two lakes were higher than those in the water samples (p < 0.05), and the Latescibacteria and Nitrospinae groups were identified only in the sediments. These results suggest that both the phytoplankton and bacterial communities differed considerably between the oligotrophic lake and the eutrophic lake.
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Wang H, Zhu R, Zhang X, Li Y, Ni L, Xie P, Shen H. Abiotic environmental factors override phytoplankton succession in shaping both free-living and attached bacterial communities in a highland lake. AMB Express 2019; 9:170. [PMID: 31673822 PMCID: PMC6823470 DOI: 10.1186/s13568-019-0889-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2019] [Accepted: 09/30/2019] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Bacterial communities are an important part of biological diversity and biogeochemical cycling in aquatic ecosystems. In this study, the relationship amongst the phytoplankton species composition and abiotic environmental factors on seasonal changes in the community composition of free-living and attached bacteria in Lake Erhai were studied. Using Illumina high-throughput sequencing, we found that the impact of environmental factors on both the free-living and attached bacterial community composition was greater than that of the phytoplankton community, amongst which total phosphorus, Secchi disk, water temperature, dissolved oxygen and conductivity strongly influenced bacterial community composition. Microcystis blooms associated with subdominant Psephonema occurred during the summer and autumn, and Fragilaria, Melosira and Mougeotia were found at high densities in the other seasons. Only small numbers of algal species-specific bacteria, including Xanthomonadaceae (Proteobacteria) and Alcaligenaceae (Betaproteobacteria), were tightly coupled to Microcystis and Psephonema during Microcystis blooms. Redundancy analysis showed that although the composition of the bacterial communities was controlled by species composition mediated by changes in phytoplankton communities and abiotic environmental factors, the impact of the abiotic environment on both free-living and attached bacterial community compositions were greater than the impact of the phytoplankton community. These results suggest that the species composition of both free-living and attached bacterial communities are affected by abiotic environmental factors, even when under strong control by biotic factors, particularly dominant genera of Microcystis and Psephonema during algal blooms.
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Schweitzer-Natan O, Ofek-Lalzar M, Sher D, Sukenik A. Particle-Associated Microbial Community in a Subtropical Lake During Thermal Mixing and Phytoplankton Succession. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2142. [PMID: 31572346 PMCID: PMC6753980 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2019] [Accepted: 08/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Ecosystem dynamics in monomictic lakes are characterized by seasonal thermal mixing and stratification. These physical processes bring about seasonal variations in nutrients and organic matter fluxes, affecting the biogeochemical processes that occur in the water column. Physical and chemical dynamics are generally reflected in seasonal structural changes in the phytoplankton and bacterio-plankton community. In this study, we analyzed, using 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing, the structure of the bacterial community associated with large particles (>20 μm) in Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee, Israel), and its associations to phytoplankton populations. The study was carried out during late winter and early spring, a highly dynamic period in terms of thermal mixing, nutrient availability, and shifts in phytoplankton composition. Structural changes in the bacterioplankton population corresponded with limnological variations in the lake. In terms of the entire heterotrophic community, the structural patterns of particle-associated bacteria were mainly correlated with abiotic factors such as pH, ammonia, water temperature and nitrate. However, analysis of microbial taxon-specific correlations with phytoplankton species revealed a strong potential link between specific bacterial populations and the presence of different phytoplankton species, such as the cyanobacterium Microcystis, as well as the dinoflagellates Peridinium and Peridiniopsis. We found that Brevundimonas, a common freshwater genus, and Bdellovibrio, a well-known Gram-negative bacteria predator, were positively associated to Microcystis, suggesting a potentially important role of these three taxa in the microbial ecology of the lake. Our results show that the dynamics of environmental abiotic conditions, rather than specific phytoplankton assemblages, are the main factors positively correlated with changes in the community structure as a whole. Nevertheless, some specific bacteria may interact and be linked with specific phytoplankton, which may potentially control the dynamic patterns of the microbial community.
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- Orna Schweitzer-Natan
- Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Haifa, Israel
- Department of Marine Biology, Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Marine Biology, Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Haifa, Israel
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Co-occurrence patterns between phytoplankton and bacterioplankton across the pelagic zone of Lake Baikal during spring. J Microbiol 2019; 57:252-262. [PMID: 30929228 DOI: 10.1007/s12275-019-8531-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2018] [Revised: 11/09/2018] [Accepted: 11/26/2018] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Phytoplankton and bacterioplankton play a key role in carbon cycling of aquatic ecosystems. In this study, we found that co-occurrence patterns between different types of phytoplankton, bacterioplankton, and environmental parameters in Lake Baikal during spring were different over the course of three consecutive years. The composition of phytoplankton and bacterial communities was investigated using microscopy and 16S rRNA gene pyrosequencing, respectively. Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) revealed a relationship between the structure of phytoplankton and bacterial communities and temperature, location, and sampling year. Associations of bacteria with diatoms, green microalgae, chrysophyte, and cryptophyte were identified using microscopy. Cluster analysis revealed similar correlation patterns between phytoplankton abundance, number of attached bacteria, ratio of bacteria per phytoplankton cell and environmental parameters. Positive and negative correlations between different species of phytoplankton, heterotrophic bacteria and environmental parameters may indicate mutualistic or competitive relationships between microorganisms and their preferences to the environment.
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Mikhailov IS, Zakharova YR, Bukin YS, Galachyants YP, Petrova DP, Sakirko MV, Likhoshway YV. Co-occurrence Networks Among Bacteria and Microbial Eukaryotes of Lake Baikal During a Spring Phytoplankton Bloom. MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 2019; 77:96-109. [PMID: 29882155 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-018-1212-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2017] [Accepted: 05/28/2018] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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The pelagic zone of Lake Baikal is an ecological niche where phytoplankton bloom causes increasing microbial abundance in spring which plays a key role in carbon turnover in the freshwater lake. Co-occurrence patterns revealed among different microbes can be applied to predict interactions between the microbes and environmental conditions in the ecosystem. We used 454 pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA and 18S rRNA genes to study bacterial and microbial eukaryotic communities and their co-occurrence patterns at the pelagic zone of Lake Baikal during a spring phytoplankton bloom. We found that microbes within one domain mostly correlated positively with each other and are highly interconnected. The highly connected taxa in co-occurrence networks were operational taxonomic units (OTUs) of Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Alphaproteobacteria, and autotrophic and unclassified Eukaryota which might be analogous to microbial keystone taxa. Constrained correspondence analysis revealed the relationships of bacterial and microbial eukaryotic communities with geographical location.
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- Ivan S Mikhailov
- Limnological Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 3, Ulan-Batorskaya, Irkutsk, Russia, 664033.
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- Limnological Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 3, Ulan-Batorskaya, Irkutsk, Russia, 664033
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- Limnological Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 3, Ulan-Batorskaya, Irkutsk, Russia, 664033
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- Limnological Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 3, Ulan-Batorskaya, Irkutsk, Russia, 664033
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- Limnological Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 3, Ulan-Batorskaya, Irkutsk, Russia, 664033
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- Limnological Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 3, Ulan-Batorskaya, Irkutsk, Russia, 664033
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- Limnological Institute, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 3, Ulan-Batorskaya, Irkutsk, Russia, 664033
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Kojadinovic-Sirinelli M, Villain A, Puppo C, Fon Sing S, Prioretti L, Hubert P, Grégori G, Zhang Y, Sassi JF, Claverie JM, Blanc G, Gontero B. Exploring the microbiome of the "star" freshwater diatom Asterionella formosa in a laboratory context. Environ Microbiol 2018; 20:3601-3615. [PMID: 30063098 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2017] [Revised: 05/29/2018] [Accepted: 06/21/2018] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Most of our knowledge on the mechanisms underlying diatom-bacterial interactions has been acquired through studies involving isolation of culturable partners. Here, we established a laboratory model of intermediate complexity between complex natural communities and laboratory pure culture models. We investigated the whole community formed by the freshwater diatom Asterionella formosa and its associated bacteria in a laboratory context, including both culturable and unculturable bacteria. Combining cellular and molecular approaches, we showed that in laboratory cultures, A. formosa microbiome was dynamic and comprised of numerous bacterial species (mainly Proteobacteria and Bacteroidetes). Using metagenomics, we explored several metabolic potentials present within the bacterial community. Our analyses suggested that bacteria were heterotrophic although a third of them (Alpha- and Beta-proteobacteria) could also be phototrophic. About 60% of the bacteria, phylogenetically diverse, could metabolize glycolate. The capacity to synthesize molecules such as B vitamins appeared unevenly distributed among bacteria. Altogether, our results brought insights into the bacterial diversity found in diatom-bacterial communities and hinted at metabolic interdependencies within the community that could result in diatom-bacterial and bacterial-bacterial interactions. The present work allowed us to explore the functional architecture of the bacterial community associated with A. formosa in culture and is complementary to field studies.
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- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, IGS, UMR 7256, Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, BIP, UMR 7281, Marseille, France
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- CEA Cadarache, Groupe Biomasse 3G, Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, F-13108, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, LISM, UMR 7255, Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ, University of Toulon, CNRS, IRD, MIO, UM 110, Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, BIP, UMR 7281, Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, IGS, UMR 7256, Marseille, France.,Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Marseille (APHM), Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ, University of Toulon, CNRS, IRD, MIO, UM 110, Marseille, France
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Limitations of Correlation-Based Inference in Complex Virus-Microbe Communities. mSystems 2018; 3:mSystems00084-18. [PMID: 30175237 PMCID: PMC6113591 DOI: 10.1128/msystems.00084-18] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2018] [Accepted: 07/24/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Inferring interactions from population time series is an active and ongoing area of research. It is relevant across many biological systems—particularly in virus-microbe communities, but also in gene regulatory networks, neural networks, and ecological communities broadly. Correlation-based inference—using correlations to predict interactions—is widespread. However, it is well-known that “correlation does not imply causation.” Despite this, many studies apply correlation-based inference methods to experimental time series without first assessing the potential scope for accurate inference. Here, we find that several correlation-based inference methods fail to recover interactions within in silico virus-microbe communities, raising questions on their relevance when applied in situ. Microbes are present in high abundances in the environment and in human-associated microbiomes, often exceeding 1 million per ml. Viruses of microbes are present in even higher abundances and are important in shaping microbial populations, communities, and ecosystems. Given the relative specificity of viral infection, it is essential to identify the functional linkages between viruses and their microbial hosts, particularly given dynamic changes in virus and host abundances. Multiple approaches have been proposed to infer infection networks from time series of in situ communities, among which correlation-based approaches have emerged as the de facto standard. In this work, we evaluate the accuracy of correlation-based inference methods using an in silico approach. In doing so, we compare predicted networks to actual networks to assess the self-consistency of correlation-based inference. At odds with assumptions underlying its widespread use, we find that correlation is a poor predictor of interactions in the context of viral infection and lysis of microbial hosts. The failure to predict interactions holds for methods that leverage product-moment, time-lagged, and relative-abundance-based correlations. In closing, we discuss alternative inference methods, particularly model-based methods, as a means to infer interactions in complex microbial communities with viruses. IMPORTANCE Inferring interactions from population time series is an active and ongoing area of research. It is relevant across many biological systems—particularly in virus-microbe communities, but also in gene regulatory networks, neural networks, and ecological communities broadly. Correlation-based inference—using correlations to predict interactions—is widespread. However, it is well-known that “correlation does not imply causation.” Despite this, many studies apply correlation-based inference methods to experimental time series without first assessing the potential scope for accurate inference. Here, we find that several correlation-based inference methods fail to recover interactions within in silico virus-microbe communities, raising questions on their relevance when applied in situ.
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Zhao Z, Pan Y, Jiang J, Gao S, Sun H, Dong Y, Sun P, Guan X, Zhou Z. Unrevealing variation of microbial communities and correlation with environmental variables in a full culture-cycle of Undaria pinnatifida. MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2018; 139:46-56. [PMID: 29754736 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2018.05.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2018] [Revised: 05/07/2018] [Accepted: 05/07/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Bacteria are the most abundant organisms in natural environment and dominant drivers of multiple geochemical functions. Drawing a global picture of microbial community structure and understanding their ecological status remain a grand challenge. As a typical artificial process, aquaculture provides a large amount of foods and creates great economic benefits for human beings. However, few studies are aimed at the microbial community in the aquaculture environment of aquatic plants. We analyzed microbial communities from 21 water samples in a coastal aquaculture area during the whole cultural process of Undaria pinnatifida by using high-throughout sequencing of 16S rRNA gene. The progression of U. pinnatifida aquaculture can be divided into three stages, named Seeding, Growth, and Maturity, respectively. Microbial community structures in water of the aquaculture area were significantly changed during the progression of U. pinnatifida aquaculture. The relative abundance of Flavobacteriia and Thaumarchaeota classes increased in Growth stage, and β-proteobacteria and Acidimirobiia classes decreased with the growth of U. pinnatifida. Meanwhile, environmental factors shaping the microbial community structures were uncovered during the U. pinnatifida aquaculture by using canonical correspondence analysis and Mantel test, in which temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH and nitrogen could be the major influencing factors. In addition, the microbial functions based on KEGG pathways were predicted from the microbial community compositions by PICRUSt. The comparison of predicted functions suggested that Environmental Information Processing and Genetic Information Processing were the functional categories with the most obvious shift in abundance among different stages of U. pinnatifida aquaculture. The findings of this study allowed us to better understand the microbial community in coastal aquaculture systems and the impact of seaweed cultivation on coastal ecosystems.
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- Zelong Zhao
- Liaoning Key Lab of Marine Fishery Molecular Biology, Liaoning Ocean and Fisheries Science Research Institute, Dalian, Liaoning 116023, PR China
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- Liaoning Key Lab of Marine Fishery Molecular Biology, Liaoning Ocean and Fisheries Science Research Institute, Dalian, Liaoning 116023, PR China
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- Liaoning Key Lab of Marine Fishery Molecular Biology, Liaoning Ocean and Fisheries Science Research Institute, Dalian, Liaoning 116023, PR China
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- Liaoning Key Lab of Marine Fishery Molecular Biology, Liaoning Ocean and Fisheries Science Research Institute, Dalian, Liaoning 116023, PR China
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- Liaoning Key Lab of Marine Fishery Molecular Biology, Liaoning Ocean and Fisheries Science Research Institute, Dalian, Liaoning 116023, PR China
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- Liaoning Key Lab of Marine Fishery Molecular Biology, Liaoning Ocean and Fisheries Science Research Institute, Dalian, Liaoning 116023, PR China
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- Science and Technology Park of Dalian Ocean University, Dalian, Liaoning 116023, PR China
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- Liaoning Key Lab of Marine Fishery Molecular Biology, Liaoning Ocean and Fisheries Science Research Institute, Dalian, Liaoning 116023, PR China.
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- Liaoning Key Lab of Marine Fishery Molecular Biology, Liaoning Ocean and Fisheries Science Research Institute, Dalian, Liaoning 116023, PR China.
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Cornet L, Meunier L, Van Vlierberghe M, Léonard RR, Durieu B, Lara Y, Misztak A, Sirjacobs D, Javaux EJ, Philippe H, Wilmotte A, Baurain D. Consensus assessment of the contamination level of publicly available cyanobacterial genomes. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0200323. [PMID: 30044797 PMCID: PMC6059444 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200323] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2018] [Accepted: 06/22/2018] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Publicly available genomes are crucial for phylogenetic and metagenomic studies, in which contaminating sequences can be the cause of major problems. This issue is expected to be especially important for Cyanobacteria because axenic strains are notoriously difficult to obtain and keep in culture. Yet, despite their great scientific interest, no data are currently available concerning the quality of publicly available cyanobacterial genomes. As reliably detecting contaminants is a complex task, we designed a pipeline combining six methods in a consensus strategy to assess the contamination level of 440 genome assemblies of Cyanobacteria. Two methods are based on published reference databases of ribosomal genes (SSU rRNA 16S and ribosomal proteins), one is indirectly based on a reference database of marker genes (CheckM), and three are based on complete genome analysis. Among those genome-wide methods, Kraken and DIAMOND blastx share the same reference database that we derived from Ensembl Bacteria, whereas CONCOCT does not require any reference database, instead relying on differences in DNA tetramer frequencies. Given that all the six methods appear to have their own strengths and limitations, we used the consensus of their rankings to infer that >5% of cyanobacterial genome assemblies are highly contaminated by foreign DNA (i.e., contaminants were detected by 5 or 6 methods). Our results will help researchers to check the quality of publicly available genomic data before use in their own analyses. Moreover, we argue that journals should make mandatory the submission of raw read data along with genome assemblies in order to facilitate the detection of contaminants in sequence databases.
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- Luc Cornet
- InBioS–PhytoSYSTEMS, Eukaryotic Phylogenomics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
- UR Geology–Palaeobiogeology-Palaeobotany-Palaeopalynology, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- InBioS–PhytoSYSTEMS, Eukaryotic Phylogenomics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- InBioS–PhytoSYSTEMS, Eukaryotic Phylogenomics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- InBioS–PhytoSYSTEMS, Eukaryotic Phylogenomics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
- InBioS–CIP, Macromolecular Crystallography, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- InBioS–CIP, Centre for Protein Engineering, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- InBioS–CIP, Centre for Protein Engineering, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- InBioS–PhytoSYSTEMS, Eukaryotic Phylogenomics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
- Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology UG-MUG, Gdansk, Poland
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- InBioS–PhytoSYSTEMS, Eukaryotic Phylogenomics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- UR Geology–Palaeobiogeology-Palaeobotany-Palaeopalynology, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- Centre for Biodiversity Theory and Modelling, Moulis, France
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- InBioS–CIP, Centre for Protein Engineering, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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- InBioS–PhytoSYSTEMS, Eukaryotic Phylogenomics, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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Bock C, Salcher M, Jensen M, Pandey RV, Boenigk J. Synchrony of Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic Planktonic Communities in Three Seasonally Sampled Austrian Lakes. Front Microbiol 2018; 9:1290. [PMID: 29963032 PMCID: PMC6014231 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.01290] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2018] [Accepted: 05/28/2018] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Freshwater systems are characterized by an enormous diversity of eukaryotic protists and prokaryotic taxa. The community structures in different lakes are thereby influenced by factors such as habitat size, lake chemistry, biotic interactions, and seasonality. In our study, we used high throughput 454 sequencing to study the diversity and temporal changes of prokaryotic and eukaryotic planktonic communities in three Austrian lakes during the ice-free season. In the following year, one lake was sampled again with a reduced set of sampling dates to observe reoccurring patterns. Cluster analyses (based on SSU V9 (eukaryotic) and V4 (prokaryotic) OTU composition) grouped samples according to their origin followed by separation into seasonal clusters, indicating that each lake has a unique signature based on OTU composition. These results suggest a strong habitat-specificity of microbial communities and in particular of community patterns at the OTU level. A comparison of the prokaryotic and eukaryotic datasets via co-inertia analysis (CIA) showed a consistent clustering of prokaryotic and eukaryotic samples, probably reacting to the same environmental forces (e.g., pH, conductivity). In addition, the shifts in eukaryotic and bacterioplanktonic communities generally occurred at the same time and on the same scale. Regression analyses revealed a linear relationship between an increase in Bray-Curtis dissimilarities and elapsed time. Our study shows a pronounced coupling between bacteria and eukaryotes in seasonal samplings of the three analyzed lakes. However, our temporal resolution (biweekly sampling) and data on abiotic factors were insufficient to determine if this was caused by direct biotic interactions or by reacting to the same seasonally changing environmental forces.
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- Christina Bock
- Biodiversity, Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Limnological Station, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.,Institute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre CAS, České Budějovice, Czechia
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- Biodiversity, Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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- Institut für Populationsgenetik, Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria.,Center for Hematology and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Biodiversity, Faculty of Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
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Yang W, Zheng Z, Zheng C, Lu K, Ding D, Zhu J. Temporal variations in a phytoplankton community in a subtropical reservoir: An interplay of extrinsic and intrinsic community effects. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2018; 612:720-727. [PMID: 28866399 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2017] [Revised: 08/04/2017] [Accepted: 08/04/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The phytoplankton community structure is potentially influenced by both extrinsic effects originating from the surrounding environment and intrinsic effects relying on interspecific interactions between two species. However, few studies have simultaneously considered both types of effects and assessed the relative importance of these factors. In this study, we used data collected over nine months (August 2012-May 2013) from a typical subtropical reservoir in southeast China to analyze the temporal variation of its phytoplankton community structure and develop a quantitative understanding of the extrinsic and intrinsic effects on phytoplankton community dynamics. Significant temporal variations were observed in environmental variables as well as the phytoplankton and zooplankton communities, whereas their variational trajectories and directions were entirely different. Variance partitioning analysis showed that extrinsic factors significantly explained only 31% of the variation in the phytoplankton community, thus suggesting that these factors were incomplete predictors of the community structure. Random forest-based models showed that 48% of qualified responsible phytoplankton species were more accurately predicted by phytoplankton-only models, which revealed clear effects of interspecific species-to-species interactions. Furthermore, we used association networks to model the interactions among phytoplankton, zooplankton and the environment. Network comparisons indicated that interspecific interactions were widely present in the phytoplankton community and dominated the network rather than those between phytoplankton and extrinsic factors. These findings expand the current understanding of the underlying mechanisms that govern phytoplankton community dynamics.
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- Wen Yang
- School of Marine Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
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- School of Marine Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
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- School of Marine Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
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- School of Marine Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China
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- The First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration (SOA), Qingdao 266061, China
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- School of Marine Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China.
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The sensitivity and stability of bacterioplankton community structure to wind-wave turbulence in a large, shallow, eutrophic lake. Sci Rep 2017; 7:16850. [PMID: 29203907 PMCID: PMC5715125 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-17242-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2017] [Accepted: 11/05/2017] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Lakes are strongly influenced by wind-driven wave turbulence. The direct physical effects of turbulence on bacterioplankton community structure however, have not yet been addressed and remains poorly understood. To examine the stability of bacterioplankton communities under turbulent conditions, we simulated conditions in the field to evaluate the responses of the bacterioplankton community to physical forcing in Lake Taihu, using high-throughput sequencing and flow cytometry. A total of 4,520,231 high quality sequence reads and 74,842 OTUs were obtained in all samples with α-proteobacteria, γ-proteobacteria and Actinobacteria being the most dominant taxa. The diversity and structure of bacterioplankton communities varied during the experiment, but were highly similar based on the same time of sampling, suggesting that bacterioplankton communities are insensitive to wind wave turbulence in the lake. This stability could be associated with the traits associated with bacteria. In particular, turbulence favored the growth of bacterioplankton, which enhanced biogeochemical cycling of nutrients in the lake. This study provides a better understanding of bacterioplankton communities in lake ecosystems exposed to natural mixing/disturbances.
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The Limnohabitans Genus Harbors Generalistic and Opportunistic Subtypes: Evidence from Spatiotemporal Succession in a Canyon-Shaped Reservoir. Appl Environ Microbiol 2017; 83:AEM.01530-17. [PMID: 28842542 DOI: 10.1128/aem.01530-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2017] [Accepted: 08/22/2017] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We studied the diversity of Limnohabitans using reverse line blot hybridization with Limnohabitans lineage-specific probes in the freshwater canyon-shaped Římov reservoir (Czech Republic). To examine the succession of distinct lineages, we performed (i) a study of an intensive spring sampling program at the lacustrine part of the Římov reservoir (from ice melt through a phytoplankton peak to the clear-water phase), and (ii) a seasonal study (April to November) when the occurrence of distinct Limnohabitans lineages was related to the inherent longitudinal heterogeneity of the reservoir. Significant spatiotemporal changes in the compositions of distinct Limnohabitans lineages allowed for the identification of "generalists" that were always present throughout the whole season as well as "specialists" that appeared in the reservoir only for limited periods of time or irregularly. Our results indicate that some phytoplankton groups, such as cryptophytes or cyanobacteria, and zooplankton composition were the major factors modulating the distribution and dynamics of distinct Limnohabitans lineages. The highest Limnohabitans diversity was observed during the spring algal bloom, whereas the lowest was during the summer cyanobacterial bloom. The microdiversity also markedly increased upstream in the reservoir, being highest at the inflow, and thus likely reflecting strong influences of the watershed.IMPORTANCE The genus Limnohabitans is a typical freshwater bacterioplankton and is believed to play a significant role in inland freshwater habitats. This work is unique in detecting and tracing different closely related lineages of this bacterial genus in its natural conditions using the semiquantitative reverse line blot hybridization method and in discovering the factors influencing the microdiversity, subtype alternations, and seasonality.
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Okazaki Y, Fujinaga S, Tanaka A, Kohzu A, Oyagi H, Nakano SI. Ubiquity and quantitative significance of bacterioplankton lineages inhabiting the oxygenated hypolimnion of deep freshwater lakes. THE ISME JOURNAL 2017; 11:2279-2293. [PMID: 28585941 PMCID: PMC5607371 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2017.89] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2016] [Revised: 03/16/2017] [Accepted: 05/05/2017] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The oxygenated hypolimnion accounts for a volumetrically significant part of the global freshwater systems. Previous studies have proposed the presence of hypolimnion-specific bacterioplankton lineages that are distinct from those inhabiting the epilimnion. To date, however, no consensus exists regarding their ubiquity and abundance, which is necessary to evaluate their ecological importance. The present study investigated the bacterioplankton community in the oxygenated hypolimnia of 10 deep freshwater lakes. Despite the broad geochemical characteristics of the lakes, 16S rRNA gene sequencing demonstrated that the communities in the oxygenated hypolimnia were distinct from those in the epilimnia and identified several predominant lineages inhabiting multiple lakes. Catalyzed reporter deposition fluorescence in situ hybridization revealed that abundant hypolimnion-specific lineages, CL500-11 (Chloroflexi), CL500-3, CL500-37, CL500-15 (Planctomycetes) and Marine Group I (Thaumarchaeota), together accounted for 1.5-32.9% of all bacterioplankton in the hypolimnion of the lakes. Furthermore, an analysis of single-nucleotide variation in the partial 16S rRNA gene sequence (oligotyping) suggested the presence of different sub-populations between lakes and water layers among the lineages occurring in the entire water layer (for example, acI-B1 and acI-A7). Collectively, these results provide the first comprehensive overview of the bacterioplankton community in the oxygenated hypolimnion of deep freshwater lakes.
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- Yusuke Okazaki
- Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Otsu, Japan
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- Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, Otsu, Japan
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- National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
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- National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
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- College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan
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Paver SF, Kent AD. Direct and context‐dependent effects of light, temperature, and phytoplankton shape bacterial community composition. Ecosphere 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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- Sara F. Paver
- Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology University of Illinois Urbana Illinois 61801 USA
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- Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology University of Illinois Urbana Illinois 61801 USA
- Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences University of Illinois Urbana Illinois 61801 USA
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Soil Bacterial and Fungal Communities Show Distinct Recovery Patterns during Forest Ecosystem Restoration. Appl Environ Microbiol 2017; 83:AEM.00966-17. [PMID: 28476769 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00966-17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2017] [Accepted: 04/28/2017] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Bacteria and fungi are important mediators of biogeochemical processes and play essential roles in the establishment of plant communities, which makes knowledge about their recovery after extreme disturbances valuable for understanding ecosystem development. However, broad ecological differences between bacterial and fungal organisms, such as growth rates, stress tolerance, and substrate utilization, suggest they could follow distinct trajectories and show contrasting dynamics during recovery. In this study, we analyzed both the intra-annual variability and decade-scale recovery of bacterial and fungal communities in a chronosequence of reclaimed mined soils using next-generation sequencing to quantify their abundance, richness, β-diversity, taxonomic composition, and cooccurrence network properties. Bacterial communities shifted gradually, with overlapping β-diversity patterns across chronosequence ages, while shifts in fungal communities were more distinct among different ages. In addition, the magnitude of intra-annual variability in bacterial β-diversity was comparable to the changes across decades of chronosequence age, while fungal communities changed minimally across months. Finally, the complexity of bacterial cooccurrence networks increased with chronosequence age, while fungal networks did not show clear age-related trends. We hypothesize that these contrasting dynamics of bacteria and fungi in the chronosequence result from (i) higher growth rates for bacteria, leading to higher intra-annual variability; (ii) higher tolerance to environmental changes for fungi; and (iii) stronger influence of vegetation on fungal communities.IMPORTANCE Both bacteria and fungi play essential roles in ecosystem functions, and information about their recovery after extreme disturbances is important for understanding whole-ecosystem development. Given their many differences in phenotype, phylogeny, and life history, a comparison of different bacterial and fungal recovery patterns improves the understanding of how different components of the soil microbiota respond to ecosystem recovery. In this study, we highlight key differences between soil bacteria and fungi during the restoration of reclaimed mine soils in the form of long-term diversity patterns, intra-annual variability, and potential interaction networks. Cooccurrence networks revealed increasingly complex bacterial community interactions during recovery, in contrast to much simpler and more isolated fungal network patterns. This study compares bacterial and fungal cooccurrence networks and reveals cooccurrences persisting through successional ages.
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Yang C, Wang Q, Simon PN, Liu J, Liu L, Dai X, Zhang X, Kuang J, Igarashi Y, Pan X, Luo F. Distinct Network Interactions in Particle-Associated and Free-Living Bacterial Communities during a Microcystis aeruginosa Bloom in a Plateau Lake. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:1202. [PMID: 28713340 PMCID: PMC5492469 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.01202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2017] [Accepted: 06/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Particle-associated bacteria (PAB) and free-living bacteria (FLB) from aquatic environments during phytoplankton blooms differ in their physical distance from algae. Both the interactions within PAB and FLB community fractions and their relationship with the surrounding environmental properties are largely unknown. Here, by using high-throughput sequencing and network-based analyses, we compared the community and network characteristics of PAB and FLB from a plateau lake during a Microcystis aeruginosa bloom. Results showed that PAB and FLB differed significantly in diversity, structure and microbial connecting network. PAB communities were characterized by highly similar bacterial community structure in different sites, tighter network connections, important topological roles for the bloom-causing M. aeruginosa and Alphaproteobacteria, especially for the potentially nitrogen-fixing (Pleomorphomonas) and algicidal bacteria (Brevundimonas sp.). FLB communities were sensitive to the detected environmental factors and were characterized by significantly higher bacterial diversity, less connectivity, larger network size and marginal role of M. aeruginosa. In both networks, covariation among bacterial taxa was extensive (>88% positive connections), and bacteria potentially affiliated with biogeochemical cycling of nitrogen (i.e., denitrification, nitrogen-fixation and nitrite-oxidization) were important in occupying module hubs, such as Meganema, Pleomorphomonas, and Nitrospira. These findings highlight the importance of considering microbial network interactions for the understanding of blooms.
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- Caiyun Yang
- Research Center of Bioenergy and Bioremediation, Southwest UniversityChongqing, China
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- Research Center of Bioenergy and Bioremediation, Southwest UniversityChongqing, China
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- Research Center of Bioenergy and Bioremediation, Southwest UniversityChongqing, China
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- Research Center of Bioenergy and Bioremediation, Southwest UniversityChongqing, China
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- Research Center of Bioenergy and Bioremediation, Southwest UniversityChongqing, China
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- Research Center of Bioenergy and Bioremediation, Southwest UniversityChongqing, China
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- Research Center of Bioenergy and Bioremediation, Southwest UniversityChongqing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Conservation of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, College of Ecology and Evolution, Sun Yat-sen UniversityGuangzhou, China
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- Research Center of Bioenergy and Bioremediation, Southwest UniversityChongqing, China
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- Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Kunming University of Science and TechnologyKunming, China
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- Research Center of Bioenergy and Bioremediation, Southwest UniversityChongqing, China
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Biological interactions underpin the functioning of marine ecosystems, be it via competition, predation, mutualism, or symbiosis processes. Microbial phototroph-heterotroph interactions propel the engine that results in the biogeochemical cycling of individual elements and are critical for understanding and modelling global ocean processes. Unfortunately, studies thus far have focused on exponentially-growing cultures in nutrient-rich media, meaning knowledge of such interactions under in situ conditions is rudimentary at best. Here, we performed long-term phototroph-heterotroph co-culture experiments under nutrient-amended and natural seawater conditions which showed that it is not the concentration of nutrients but rather their circulation that maintains a stable interaction and a dynamic system. Using the Synechococcus-Roseobacter interaction as a model phototroph-heterotroph case study we show that whilst Synechococcus is highly specialised for carrying out photosynthesis and carbon-fixation it relies on the heterotroph to re-mineralise the inevitably leaked organic matter making nutrients circulate in a mutualistic system. In this sense we challenge the general belief that marine phototrophs and heterotrophs compete for the same scarce nutrients and niche space, but instead suggest these organisms more likely benefit from each other because of their different levels of specialization and complementarity within long-term stable-state systems.
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SAR11 is a group of small, carbon-oxidizing bacteria that reach a global estimated population size of 2.4×1028 cells-approximately 25% of all plankton. They are found throughout the oceans but reach their largest numbers in stratified, oligotrophic gyres, which are an expanding habitat in the warming oceans. SAR11 likely had a Precambrian origin and, over geological time, evolved into the niche of harvesting labile, low-molecular-weight dissolved organic matter (DOM). SAR11 cells are minimal in size and complexity, a phenomenon known as streamlining that is thought to benefit them by lowering the material costs of replication and maximizing transport functions that are essential to competition at ultralow nutrient concentrations. One of the surprises in SAR11 metabolism is their ability to both oxidize and produce a variety of volatile organic compounds that can diffuse into the atmosphere. SAR11 cells divide slowly and lack many forms of regulation commonly used by bacterial cells to adjust to changing environmental conditions. As a result of genome reduction, they require an unusual range of nutrients, which leads to complex biochemical interactions with other plankton. The study of SAR11 is providing insight into the biogeochemistry of labile DOM and is affecting microbiology beyond marine science by providing a model for understanding the evolution and function of streamlined cells.
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Ultrastructural and Single-Cell-Level Characterization Reveals Metabolic Versatility in a Microbial Eukaryote Community from an Ice-Covered Antarctic Lake. Appl Environ Microbiol 2016; 82:3659-3670. [PMID: 27084010 DOI: 10.1128/aem.00478-16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2016] [Accepted: 04/10/2016] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED The McMurdo Dry Valleys (MCM) of southern Victoria Land, Antarctica, harbor numerous ice-covered bodies of water that provide year-round liquid water oases for isolated food webs dominated by the microbial loop. Single-cell microbial eukaryotes (protists) occupy major trophic positions within this truncated food web, ranging from primary producers (e.g., chlorophytes, haptophytes, and cryptophytes) to tertiary predators (e.g., ciliates, dinoflagellates, and choanoflagellates). To advance the understanding of MCM protist ecology and the roles of MCM protists in nutrient and energy cycling, we investigated potential metabolic strategies and microbial interactions of key MCM protists isolated from a well-described lake (Lake Bonney). Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) of enrichment cultures, combined with single amplified genome/amplicon sequencing and fluorescence microscopy, revealed that MCM protists possess diverse potential metabolic capabilities and interactions. Two metabolically distinct bacterial clades (Flavobacteria and Methylobacteriaceae) were independently associated with two key MCM lake microalgae (Isochrysis and Chlamydomonas, respectively). We also report on the discovery of two heterotrophic nanoflagellates belonging to the Stramenopila supergroup, one of which lives as a parasite of Chlamydomonas, a dominate primary producer in the shallow, nutrient-poor layers of the lake. IMPORTANCE Single-cell eukaryotes called protists play critical roles in the cycling of organic matter in aquatic environments. In the ice-covered lakes of Antarctica, protists play key roles in the aquatic food web, providing the majority of organic carbon to the rest of the food web (photosynthetic protists) and acting as the major consumers at the top of the food web (predatory protists). In this study, we utilized a combination of techniques (microscopy, cell sorting, and genomic analysis) to describe the trophic abilities of Antarctic lake protists and their potential interactions with other microbes. Our work reveals that Antarctic lake protists rely on metabolic versatility for their energy and nutrient requirements in this unique and isolated environment.
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Sarmento H, Morana C, Gasol JM. Bacterioplankton niche partitioning in the use of phytoplankton-derived dissolved organic carbon: quantity is more important than quality. ISME JOURNAL 2016; 10:2582-2592. [PMID: 27128994 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2016.66] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2015] [Revised: 03/18/2016] [Accepted: 03/23/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Some prokaryotes are known to be specialized in the use of phytoplankton-derived dissolved organic carbon (DOCp) originated by exudation or cell lysis; however, direct quantification measurements are extremely rare. Several studies have described bacterial selectivity based on DOCp quality, but very few have focused on the quantity of DOCp, and the relative importance of each of these variables (for example, quantity versus quality) on prokaryote responses. We applied an adapted version of the MAR-FISH (microautoradiography coupled with catalyzed reporter deposition fluorescence in situ hybridization) protocol using radiolabelled exudates from axenic algal cultures to calculate a specialization index (d') for large bacterioplankton phylogenetic groups using DOCp from different phytoplankton species and at different concentrations to elucidate to what extent the bacterial response to DOCp is driven by resource quantity (different DOCp concentrations) or by quality (DOCp from different phytoplankton species). All bacterial phylogenetic groups studied had lower d' at higher DOCp concentration, indicating more generalist behavior at higher resource availabilities. Indeed, at increasing resource concentrations, most bacterial groups incorporated DOCp indiscriminately, regardless of its origin (or quality). At low resource concentrations, only some specialists were able to actively incorporate the various types of organic matter effectively. The variability of bacterial responses to different treatments was systematically higher at varying concentrations than at varying DOCp types, suggesting that, at least for this range of concentrations (10-100 μM), DOCp quantity affects bacterial responses more than quality does. Therefore, resource quantity may be more relevant than resource quality in the bacterial responses to DOCp and affect how bacterioplankton use phytoplankton-derived carbon.
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- Hugo Sarmento
- Department of Hydrobiology, Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), São Carlos, Brazil.,Institut de Ciències del Mar-CSIC, Pg. Marítim de la Barceloneta, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Institut de Ciències del Mar-CSIC, Pg. Marítim de la Barceloneta, Barcelona, Spain
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Kaluzhnaya OV, Itskovich VB. Distinctive features of the microbial diversity and the polyketide synthase genes spectrum in the community of the endemic Baikal sponge Swartschewskia papyracea. RUSS J GENET+ 2016. [DOI: 10.1134/s1022795416010099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Microbial communities reflect temporal changes in cyanobacterial composition in a shallow ephemeral freshwater lake. ISME JOURNAL 2015; 10:1337-51. [PMID: 26636552 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2015.218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2015] [Revised: 09/28/2015] [Accepted: 10/08/2015] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The frequency of freshwater cyanobacterial blooms is at risk of increasing as a consequence of climate change and eutrophication of waterways. It is increasingly apparent that abiotic data are insufficient to explain variability within the cyanobacterial community, with biotic factors such as heterotrophic bacterioplankton, viruses and protists emerging as critical drivers. During the Australian summer of 2012-2013, a bloom that occurred in a shallow ephemeral lake over a 6-month period was comprised of 22 distinct cyanobacteria, including Microcystis, Dolichospermum, Oscillatoria and Sphaerospermopsis. Cyanobacterial cell densities, bacterial community composition and abiotic parameters were assessed over this period. Alpha-diversity indices and multivariate analysis were successful at differentiating three distinct bloom phases and the contribution of abiotic parameters to each. Network analysis, assessing correlations between biotic and abiotic variables, reproduced these phases and assessed the relative importance of both abiotic and biotic factors. Variables possessing elevated betweeness centrality included temperature, sodium and operational taxonomic units belonging to the phyla Verrucomicrobia, Planctomyces, Bacteroidetes and Actinobacteria. Species-specific associations between cyanobacteria and bacterioplankton, including the free-living Actinobacteria acI, Bacteroidetes, Betaproteobacteria and Verrucomicrobia, were also identified. We concluded that changes in the abundance and nature of freshwater cyanobacteria are associated with changes in the diversity and composition of lake bacterioplankton. Given this, an increase in the frequency of cyanobacteria blooms has the potential to alter nutrient cycling and contribute to long-term functional perturbation of freshwater systems.
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Parada AE, Needham DM, Fuhrman JA. Every base matters: assessing small subunit rRNA primers for marine microbiomes with mock communities, time series and global field samples. Environ Microbiol 2015; 18:1403-14. [PMID: 26271760 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.13023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1625] [Impact Index Per Article: 180.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2015] [Revised: 07/31/2015] [Accepted: 08/12/2015] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Microbial community analysis via high-throughput sequencing of amplified 16S rRNA genes is an essential microbiology tool. We found the popular primer pair 515F (515F-C) and 806R greatly underestimated (e.g. SAR11) or overestimated (e.g. Gammaproteobacteria) common marine taxa. We evaluated marine samples and mock communities (containing 11 or 27 marine 16S clones), showing alternative primers 515F-Y (5'-GTGYCAGCMGCCGCGGTAA) and 926R (5'-CCGYCAATTYMTTTRAGTTT) yield more accurate estimates of mock community abundances, produce longer amplicons that can differentiate taxa unresolvable with 515F-C/806R, and amplify eukaryotic 18S rRNA. Mock communities amplified with 515F-Y/926R yielded closer observed community composition versus expected (r(2) = 0.95) compared with 515F-Y/806R (r(2) ∼ 0.5). Unexpectedly, biases with 515F-Y/806R against SAR11 in field samples (∼4-10-fold) were stronger than in mock communities (∼2-fold). Correcting a mismatch to Thaumarchaea in the 515F-C increased their apparent abundance in field samples, but not as much as using 926R rather than 806R. With plankton samples rich in eukaryotic DNA (> 1 μm size fraction), 18S sequences averaged ∼17% of all sequences. A single mismatch can strongly bias amplification, but even perfectly matched primers can exhibit preferential amplification. We show that beyond in silico predictions, testing with mock communities and field samples is important in primer selection.
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- Alma E Parada
- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Liu L, Yang J, Lv H, Yu X, Wilkinson DM, Yang J. Phytoplankton Communities Exhibit a Stronger Response to Environmental Changes than Bacterioplankton in Three Subtropical Reservoirs. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 2015; 49:10850-10858. [PMID: 26287966 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b02637] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The simultaneous analysis of multiple components of ecosystems is crucial for comprehensive studies of environmental changes in aquatic ecosystems, but such studies are rare. In this study, we analyzed simultaneously the bacterioplankton and phytoplankton communities in three Chinese subtropical reservoirs and compared the response of these two components to seasonal environmental changes. Time-lag analysis indicated that the temporal community dynamics of both bacterioplankton and phytoplankton showed significant directional changes, and variance partitioning suggested that the major reason was the gradual improvement of reservoir water quality from middle eutrophic to oligo-mesotrophic levels during the course of our study. In addition, we found a higher level of temporal stability or stochasticity in the bacterioplankton community than in the phytoplankton community. Potential explanations are that traits associated with bacteria, such as high abundance, widespread dispersal, potential for rapid growth rates, and rapid evolutionary adaptation, may underlie the different stability or stochasticity of bacterioplankton and phytoplankton communities to the environmental changes. In addition, the indirect response of bacterioplankton to nitrogen and phosphorus may result in the fact that environmental deterministic selection was stronger for the phytoplankton than for the bacterioplankton communities.
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- Lemian Liu
- Aquatic EcoHealth Group, Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Xiamen 361021, People's Republic of China
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- Aquatic EcoHealth Group, Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Xiamen 361021, People's Republic of China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China
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- Aquatic EcoHealth Group, Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Xiamen 361021, People's Republic of China
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- Aquatic EcoHealth Group, Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Xiamen 361021, People's Republic of China
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- School of Natural Science and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University , Byrom Street, Liverpool L3 3AF, U.K
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- Aquatic EcoHealth Group, Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Xiamen 361021, People's Republic of China
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Krustok I, Truu J, Odlare M, Truu M, Ligi T, Tiirik K, Nehrenheim E. Effect of lake water on algal biomass and microbial community structure in municipal wastewater-based lab-scale photobioreactors. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2015; 99:6537-49. [DOI: 10.1007/s00253-015-6580-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2015] [Revised: 03/25/2015] [Accepted: 03/26/2015] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Pascault N, Roux S, Artigas J, Pesce S, Leloup J, Tadonleke RD, Debroas D, Bouchez A, Humbert JF. A high-throughput sequencing ecotoxicology study of freshwater bacterial communities and their responses to tebuconazole. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2014; 90:563-74. [DOI: 10.1111/1574-6941.12416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2014] [Revised: 08/07/2014] [Accepted: 08/13/2014] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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- Noémie Pascault
- INRA; UMR CARRTEL; Thonon les Bains France
- University of Savoie; UMR CARRTEL; Le Bourget du Lac France
- i EES Paris; UMR CNRS 7618-UPMC-UPEC-Paris Diderot-IRD-INRA; Paris France
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- CNRS; UMR 6023; LMGE; Aubière France
- Laboratoire “Microorganismes: Génome et Environnement”; Clermont Université; Université Blaise Pascal; Clermont-Ferrand France
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- CNRS; UMR 6023; LMGE; Aubière France
- Laboratoire “Microorganismes: Génome et Environnement”; Clermont Université; Université Blaise Pascal; Clermont-Ferrand France
- Irstea; UR MALY; Villeurbanne Cedex France
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- i EES Paris; UMR CNRS 7618-UPMC-UPEC-Paris Diderot-IRD-INRA; Paris France
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- INRA; UMR CARRTEL; Thonon les Bains France
- University of Savoie; UMR CARRTEL; Le Bourget du Lac France
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- CNRS; UMR 6023; LMGE; Aubière France
- Laboratoire “Microorganismes: Génome et Environnement”; Clermont Université; Université Blaise Pascal; Clermont-Ferrand France
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- INRA; UMR CARRTEL; Thonon les Bains France
- University of Savoie; UMR CARRTEL; Le Bourget du Lac France
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Bacterial assembly and temporal dynamics in activated sludge of a full-scale municipal wastewater treatment plant. ISME JOURNAL 2014; 9:683-95. [PMID: 25180966 DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2014.162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 288] [Impact Index Per Article: 28.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2014] [Revised: 05/11/2014] [Accepted: 07/17/2014] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Understanding environmental and biological influences on the dynamics of microbial communities has received great attention in microbial ecology. Here, utilizing large time-series 16S rRNA gene data, we show that in activated sludge of an environmentally important municipal wastewater treatment plant, 5-year temporal dynamics of bacterial community shows no significant seasonal succession, but is consistent with deterministic assemblage by taxonomic relatedness. Biological interactions are dominant drivers in determining the bacterial community assembly, whereas environmental conditions (mainly sludge retention time and inorganic nitrogen) partially explain phylogenetic and quantitative variances and indirectly influence bacterial assembly. We demonstrate a correlation-based statistical method to integrate bacterial association networks with their taxonomic affiliations to predict community-wide co-occurrence and co-exclusion patterns. The results show that although taxonomically closely related bacteria tend to positively co-occur (for example, out of a cooperative relationship), negative co-excluding correlations are deterministically observed between taxonomically less related species, probably implicating roles of competition in determining bacterial assembly. Overall, disclosures of the positive and negative species-species relations will improve our understanding of ecological niches occupied by unknown species and help to predict their biological functions in ecosystems.
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Liu L, Yang J, Lv H, Yu Z. Synchronous dynamics and correlations between bacteria and phytoplankton in a subtropical drinking water reservoir. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2014; 90:126-38. [DOI: 10.1111/1574-6941.12378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/24/2014] [Revised: 05/29/2014] [Accepted: 06/30/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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- Lemian Liu
- Aquatic EcoHealth Group; Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health; Institute of Urban Environment; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Xiamen China
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- Aquatic EcoHealth Group; Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health; Institute of Urban Environment; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Xiamen China
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- Aquatic EcoHealth Group; Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health; Institute of Urban Environment; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Xiamen China
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- Aquatic EcoHealth Group; Key Laboratory of Urban Environment and Health; Institute of Urban Environment; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Xiamen China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing China
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Cabassi J, Tassi F, Mapelli F, Borin S, Calabrese S, Rouwet D, Chiodini G, Marasco R, Chouaia B, Avino R, Vaselli O, Pecoraino G, Capecchiacci F, Bicocchi G, Caliro S, Ramirez C, Mora-Amador R. Geosphere-biosphere interactions in bio-activity volcanic lakes: evidences from Hule and Rìo Cuarto (Costa Rica). PLoS One 2014; 9:e102456. [PMID: 25058537 PMCID: PMC4109938 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2014] [Accepted: 06/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Hule and Río Cuarto are maar lakes located 11 and 18 km N of Poás volcano along a 27 km long fracture zone, in the Central Volcanic Range of Costa Rica. Both lakes are characterized by a stable thermic and chemical stratification and recently they were affected by fish killing events likely related to the uprising of deep anoxic waters to the surface caused by rollover phenomena. The vertical profiles of temperature, pH, redox potential, chemical and isotopic compositions of water and dissolved gases, as well as prokaryotic diversity estimated by DNA fingerprinting and massive 16S rRNA pyrosequencing along the water column of the two lakes, have highlighted that different bio-geochemical processes occur in these meromictic lakes. Although the two lakes host different bacterial and archaeal phylogenetic groups, water and gas chemistry in both lakes is controlled by the same prokaryotic functions, especially regarding the CO2-CH4 cycle. Addition of hydrothermal CO2 through the bottom of the lakes plays a fundamental priming role in developing a stable water stratification and fuelling anoxic bacterial and archaeal populations. Methanogens and methane oxidizers as well as autotrophic and heterotrophic aerobic bacteria responsible of organic carbon recycling resulted to be stratified with depth and strictly related to the chemical-physical conditions and availability of free oxygen, affecting both the CO2 and CH4 chemical concentrations and their isotopic compositions along the water column. Hule and Río Cuarto lakes were demonstrated to contain a CO2 (CH4, N2)-rich gas reservoir mainly controlled by the interactions occurring between geosphere and biosphere. Thus, we introduced the term of bio-activity volcanic lakes to distinguish these lakes, which have analogues worldwide (e.g. Kivu: D.R.C.-Rwanda; Albano, Monticchio and Averno: Italy; Pavin: France) from volcanic lakes only characterized by geogenic CO2 reservoir such as Nyos and Monoun (Cameroon).
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- Jacopo Cabassi
- Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
- CNR – Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra e del Mare, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Vesuviano, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Food, Environmental and Nutritional Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Vesuviano, Naples, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
- CNR – Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Florence, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
- CNR – Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Florence, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Vesuviano, Naples, Italy
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- Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias Geológicas, Escuela Centroamericana de Geología, Red Sismológica Nacional, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica
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- Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias Geológicas, Escuela Centroamericana de Geología, Red Sismológica Nacional, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica
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Paver SF, Youngblut ND, Whitaker RJ, Kent AD. Phytoplankton succession affects the composition of Polynucleobacter subtypes in humic lakes. Environ Microbiol 2014; 17:816-28. [PMID: 24912130 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2013] [Accepted: 06/03/2014] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
Abstract
Phytoplankton influence the composition of bacterial communities, but the taxonomic specificity of algal-bacterial interactions is unclear due to the aggregation of ecologically distinct bacterial populations by community characterization methods. Here we examine whether phytoplankton seasonal succession affects the composition of subtypes within the cosmopolitan freshwater bacterial genus Polynucleobacter. Changes in the composition of Polynucleobacter subtypes were characterized in samples collected weekly from May to August in 2003 and 2008 from three humic lakes using terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism fingerprinting of the protein-encoding cytochrome c oxidase ccoN gene. Changes in phytoplankton population abundances explained, on average, 30% of temporal variation in the composition of Polynucleobacter subtypes and the interaction between phytoplankton and the environment explained an additional 18% of temporal variation. The effect of phytoplankton on specific Polynucleobacter subtypes was experimentally confirmed by changes in Polynucleobacter subtype composition following incubation with different phytoplankton assemblages or a no-phytoplankton control. Phytoplankton-associated subtypes and differentiation in substrate use among subtypes likely contribute to the effects of phytoplankton on Polynucleobacter subtype composition. Interactions between unique Polynucleobacter populations and phytoplankton highlight the ecological significance and specificity of species interactions in freshwater communities.
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- Sara F Paver
- Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA
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Xiong J, Zhu J, Wang K, Wang X, Ye X, Liu L, Zhao Q, Hou M, Qiuqian L, Zhang D. The temporal scaling of bacterioplankton composition: high turnover and predictability during shrimp cultivation. MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 2014; 67:256-264. [PMID: 24306831 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-013-0336-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2013] [Accepted: 11/21/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
Abstract
The spatial distribution of microbial communities has recently been reliably documented in the form of a distance-similarity decay relationship. In contrast, temporal scaling, the pattern defined by the microbial similarity-time relationships (STRs), has received far less attention. As a result, it is unclear whether the spatial and temporal variations of microbial communities share a similar power law. In this study, we applied the 454 pyrosequencing technique to investigate temporal scaling in patterns of bacterioplankton community dynamics during the process of shrimp culture. Our results showed that the similarities decreased significantly (P = 0.002) with time during the period over which the bacterioplankton community was monitored, with a scaling exponent of w = 0.400. However, the diversities did not change dramatically. The community dynamics followed a gradual process of succession relative to the parent communities, with greater similarities between samples from consecutive sampling points. In particular, the variations of the bacterial communities from different ponds shared similar successional trajectories, suggesting that bacterial temporal dynamics are predictable to a certain extent. Changes in bacterial community structure were significantly correlated with the combination of Chl a, TN, PO4 (3-), and the C/N ratio. In this study, we identified predictable patterns in the temporal dynamics of bacterioplankton community structure, demonstrating that the STR of the bacterial community mirrors the spatial distance-similarity decay model.
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- Jinbo Xiong
- Faculty of Marine Sciences, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, China
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