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Zuelow AN, Danilchik NM, Donahue HS, Henkel SK. Seasonal variability in energetic value of Crangon alaskensis and effects of marine heatwaves in the Northeast Pacific Ocean. Mar Environ Res 2024; 197:106475. [PMID: 38569399 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2024.106475] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2023] [Revised: 03/14/2024] [Accepted: 03/23/2024] [Indexed: 04/05/2024]
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Research cruises were conducted to sample the invertebrate community along the shelf off the central coast of Oregon from 2010 to 2018. A large marine heatwave (MHW) hit the northeast Pacific in fall 2014 and persisted locally through 2015. Here, we assessed the caloric content changes of Crangon alaskensis (a common sandy shrimp) before, during, and after the 2014-2015 MHW. We found significant reductions in the caloric density of shelf populations of C. alaskensis during summer 2015. Oceanographic indices like the Biologically Effective Upwelling Transport Index (BEUTI) and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) had greater predictive power for caloric density and biomass than in situ conditions, although bottom temperature and dissolved oxygen were also significantly correlated with caloric density. Caloric density of C. alaskensis was highest in 2018, indicating favorable conditions after the intense MHW of 2014-2015 allowed the caloric density to rebound.
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- Angelina N Zuelow
- Hatfield Marine Science Center, Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, Newport, OR, USA.
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- Hatfield Marine Science Center, Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, Newport, OR, USA
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- Hatfield Marine Science Center, Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, Newport, OR, USA; College of Life Science and Agriculture, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
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- Hatfield Marine Science Center, Department of Integrative Biology, Oregon State University, Newport, OR, USA
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Barlow DR, Strong CS, Torres LG. Three decades of nearshore surveys reveal long-term patterns in gray whale habitat use, distribution, and abundance in the Northern California Current. Sci Rep 2024; 14:9352. [PMID: 38654001 PMCID: PMC11039675 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-59552-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2023] [Accepted: 04/11/2024] [Indexed: 04/25/2024] Open
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The nearshore waters of the Northern California Current support an important seasonal foraging ground for Pacific Coast Feeding Group (PCFG) gray whales. We examine gray whale distribution, habitat use, and abundance over 31 years (1992-2022) using standardized nearshore (< 5 km from shore) surveys spanning a large swath of the PCFG foraging range. Specifically, we generated density surface models, which incorporate detection probability into generalized additive models to assess environmental correlates of gray whale distribution and predict abundance over time. We illustrate the importance of coastal upwelling dynamics, whereby increased upwelling only yields higher gray whale density if interspersed with relaxation events, likely because this combination optimizes influx and retention of nutrients to support recruitment and aggregation of gray whale prey. Several habitat features influence gray whale distribution, including substrate, shelf width, prominent capes, and river estuaries. However, the influence of these features differs between regions, revealing heterogeneity in habitat preferences throughout the PCFG foraging range. Predicted gray whale abundance fluctuated throughout our study period, but without clear directional trends, unlike previous abundance estimates based on mark-recapture models. This study highlights the value of long-term monitoring, shedding light on the impacts of variable environmental conditions on an iconic nearshore marine predator.
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- Dawn R Barlow
- Geospatial Ecology of Marine Megafauna Lab, Marine Mammal Institute, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences, Oregon State University, Newport, OR, USA.
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- Geospatial Ecology of Marine Megafauna Lab, Marine Mammal Institute, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences, Oregon State University, Newport, OR, USA
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Dang W, Feng J, Li D, Fan M, Zhao L. A dataset of storm surge reconstructions in the Western North Pacific using CNN. Sci Data 2024; 11:405. [PMID: 38649677 PMCID: PMC11035666 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-03249-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2023] [Accepted: 04/10/2024] [Indexed: 04/25/2024] Open
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The relatively short duration of available tide gauge records poses challenges for conducting comprehensive statistical analyses of storm surges in the Western North Pacific. To address this issue, we employ a convolutional neural network model to reconstruct the maximum daily storm surge at 160 tide gauges from 1900 to 2010 in the Western North Pacific. The reconstructed dataset serves multiple purposes. Firstly, it facilitates the identification of regions where notable changes in the storm surges have occurred in the past. Additionally, the dataset enables long-term analyses of the storm surge climate, offering insights into historical patterns and variations. Furthermore, it provides a solid foundation for conducting robust extreme value analyses. To ensure accessibility, the data are publicly available through a repository, allowing for easy access and utilization by the broader scientific community and the general public. Overall, our research contributes to the field of oceanography by providing a dataset that aids in understanding the historical storm surge dynamics in the Western North Pacific region.
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- Wen Dang
- Key Laboratory of Marine Resource Chemistry and Food Technology (TUST), Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, 300457, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Resource Chemistry and Food Technology (TUST), Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, 300457, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Ocean Observation and Forecasting, Key Laboratory of Ocean Circulation and Waves, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Resource Chemistry and Food Technology (TUST), Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, 300457, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Resource Chemistry and Food Technology (TUST), Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, 300457, China
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Ohdera AH, Mansbridge M, Wang M, Naydenkov P, Kamel B, Goentoro L. The microbiome of a Pacific moon jellyfish Aurelia coerulea. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0298002. [PMID: 38635587 PMCID: PMC11025843 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0298002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2023] [Accepted: 01/16/2024] [Indexed: 04/20/2024] Open
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The impact of microbiome in animal physiology is well appreciated, but characterization of animal-microbe symbiosis in marine environments remains a growing need. This study characterizes the microbial communities associated with the moon jellyfish Aurelia coerulea, first isolated from the East Pacific Ocean and has since been utilized as an experimental system. We find that the microbiome of this Pacific Aurelia culture is dominated by two taxa, a Mollicutes and Rickettsiales. The microbiome is stable across life stages, although composition varies. Mining the host sequencing data, we assembled the bacterial metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs). The bacterial MAGs are highly reduced, and predict a high metabolic dependence on the host. Analysis using multiple metrics suggest that both bacteria are likely new species. We therefore propose the names Ca. Mariplasma lunae (Mollicutes) and Ca. Marinirickettsia aquamalans (Rickettsiales). Finally, comparison with studies of Aurelia from other geographical populations suggests the association with Ca. Mariplasma lunae occurs in Aurelia from multiple geographical locations. The low-diversity microbiome of Aurelia provides a relatively simple system to study host-microbe interactions.
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- Aki H. Ohdera
- Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States of America
- National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C., United States of America
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- Flintridge Preparatory School, La Cañada Flintridge, CA, United States of America
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- Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States of America
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- US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States of America
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- Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States of America
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Kim IH, Park IK, Park D, Kim MS, Cho IY, Yang D, Han DJ, Cho E, Shim WJ, Hong SH, An YR. Habitat use of loggerhead (Caretta caretta) and green (Chelonia mydas) turtles at the northern limit of their distribution range of the Northwest Pacific Ocean. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0290202. [PMID: 38573996 PMCID: PMC10994308 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0290202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2023] [Accepted: 01/30/2024] [Indexed: 04/06/2024] Open
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Verifying habitats, including the foraging and nesting areas for sea turtles, enables an understanding of their spatial ecology and successful planning of their conservation and management strategies. Recently, the observation frequency and bycatch of loggerhead (Caretta caretta) and green (Chelonia mydas) turtles have increased in the northern limit of their distribution range, in the northern part of the East China Sea and East (Japan) Sea. We conducted satellite tracking to investigate the habitat use of seven loggerhead and eight green turtles from June 2016 to August 2022 in this area, where little is known about their spatial ecology. We applied a 50 percent volume contour method to determine their main foraging areas and analyzed 6 environmental variables to characterize their habitats. Loggerhead turtles mainly stayed in and used the East China Sea as a foraging area during the tracking period, while two individuals among them also used the East Sea as a seasonal foraging area. Most green turtles also used the East China Sea as a foraging area, near South Korea and Japan, with one individual among them using the lower area of the East Sea as a seasonal foraging area. Notably, one green turtle traveled to Hainan Island in the South China Sea, a historical nesting area. Our results showed that the two sea turtle species included the East Sea as a seasonal foraging area, possibly owing to the abundance of food sources available, despite its relatively lower sea temperature. Considering that loggerhead and green sea turtles were observed using the northern part of the East China Sea and East Sea more frequently than previously known and that the sea temperature gradually increases due to climate change, conservation and management activities are required for sea turtles in these areas.
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- Il-Hun Kim
- Department of Ecology and Conservation, National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korea, Seocheon, Chungcheongnam-do, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Science Education, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea
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- Division of Science Education, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Ecology and Conservation, National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korea, Seocheon, Chungcheongnam-do, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Ecology and Conservation, National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korea, Seocheon, Chungcheongnam-do, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Ecology and Conservation, National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korea, Seocheon, Chungcheongnam-do, Republic of Korea
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- Aqua Team, Aqua Planet Yeosu, Yeosu, Jeollanam-do, Republic of Korea
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- Aqua Team, Aqua Planet Yeosu, Yeosu, Jeollanam-do, Republic of Korea
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- Ecological Risk Research Department, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Geoje, Gyeongsangnam-do, Republic of Korea
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- Ecological Risk Research Department, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Geoje, Gyeongsangnam-do, Republic of Korea
- Department of Ocean Science, University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Ecology and Conservation, National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korea, Seocheon, Chungcheongnam-do, Republic of Korea
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Fu Y, Qu Z, Wang Y, Sun P, Jiao N, Xu D. Biogeographical and biodiversity patterns of planktonic microeukaryotes along the tropical western to eastern Pacific Ocean transect revealed by metabarcoding. Microbiol Spectr 2024; 12:e0242423. [PMID: 38488393 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.02424-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/12/2023] [Accepted: 03/02/2024] [Indexed: 04/06/2024] Open
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Microeukaryotic plankton (0.2-200 µm), which are morphologically and genetically highly diverse, play a crucial role in ocean productivity and carbon consumption. The Pacific Ocean (PO), one of the world's largest oligotrophic regions, remains largely unexplored in terms of the biogeography and biodiversity of microeukaryotes based on large-scale sampling. We investigated the horizontal distribution of microeukaryotes along a 16,000 km transect from the west to the east of the PO. The alpha diversity indices showed a distinct decreasing trend from west to east, which was highly correlated with water temperature. The microeukaryotic community, which was clustered into the western, central, and eastern PO groups, displayed a significant distance-decay relationship. Syndiniales, a lineage of parasitic dinoflagellates, was ubiquitously distributed along the transect and dominated the community in terms of both sequence and zero-radius operational taxonomic unit (ZOTU) proportions. The prevailing dominance of Syndiniales-affiliated ZOTUs and their close associations with dinoflagellates, diatoms, and radiolarians, as revealed by SparCC correlation analysis, suggested that parasitism may be an important trophic strategy in the surface waters of the PO. Geographical distance and temperature were the most important environmental factors that significantly correlated with community structure. Overall, our study sheds more light on the distribution pattern of both alpha and beta diversities of microeukaryotic communities and highlighted the importance of parasitisms by Syndiniales across the tropical PO.IMPORTANCEUnderstanding the biogeographical and biodiversity patterns of microeukaryotic communities is essential to comprehending their roles in biogeochemical cycling. In this study, planktonic microeukaryotes were collected along a west-to-east Pacific Ocean transect (ca. 16,000 km). Our study revealed that the alpha diversity indices were highly correlated with water temperature, and the microeukaryotic communities displayed a distinct geographical distance-driven pattern. The predominance of the parasitic dinoflagellate lineage Syndiniales and their close relationship with other microeukaryotic groups suggest that parasitism may be a crucial survival strategy for microeukaryotes in the surface waters of the Pacific Ocean. Our findings expand our understanding of the biodiversity and biogeographical pattern of microeukaryotes and highlight the significance of parasitic Syndiniales in the surface ocean.
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- Yingjun Fu
- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Institute of Marine Microbes and Ecospheres, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
- Fujian Key Laboratory of Marine Carbon Sequestration, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- Institute of Marine Science and Technology, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Coastal Ecology and Environmental Studies, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- Key Laboratory of Ministry of Education for Coastal and Wetland Ecosystems, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Coastal Ecology and Environmental Studies, College of the Environment and Ecology, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Institute of Marine Microbes and Ecospheres, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
- Fujian Key Laboratory of Marine Carbon Sequestration, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Institute of Marine Microbes and Ecospheres, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
- Fujian Key Laboratory of Marine Carbon Sequestration, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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Shirodkar G, Uskaikar H, Naqvi SWA, Pratihary A, Hussain A, Shenoy DM, Gauns M, Manikandan B, Manjrekar S, Patil A. Seasonally varying biogeochemical regime around the coral habitats off central west coast of India. Mar Environ Res 2024; 196:106427. [PMID: 38479295 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2024.106427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2023] [Revised: 02/24/2024] [Accepted: 02/26/2024] [Indexed: 03/23/2024]
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The Western Indian Continental Shelf (WICS) experiences upwelling during the Southwest Monsoon (SWM), leading to deoxygenation and acidification of subsurface waters. The region has patchy growth of corals, e.g. in the Grande Island and Angria Bank. Measurements made during the late SWM of 2022 reveal that the shelf waters around the Grande Island were subject to varying environmental conditions, viz. lower temperature (21.3-26.1°C), oxygen (0-4.9 mL L-1) and pHT (7.506-7.927). Complete anoxia was associated with sulphide build-up to a maximum of 5.9 μmol L-1 at 17 m depth. An additional episodic condition (high temperature, low oxygen and pH) also occurred associated presumably with a plankton bloom in April 2017. Hence, unlike the offshore coral site Angria Bank, waters around the Grande Island experiences extreme changes in physico-chemical conditions (e.g. Ωarg ∼1.2-1.8 during October 2022) seasonally as reported here. The biogeochemical conditions are however not as intense (Ωarg = 0.6) as observed along the eastern boundary upwelling system of the Pacific Ocean.
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- Gayatri Shirodkar
- CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa-403004, India.
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- CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa-403004, India
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- CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa-403004, India
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- CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa-403004, India
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- CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa-403004, India
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- CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa-403004, India
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- CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa-403004, India
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- CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa-403004, India
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- CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Dona Paula, Goa-403004, India
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Roslund JD, Cingöz A, Lunden WD, Partridge GB, Kowligy AS, Roller F, Sheredy DB, Skulason GE, Song JP, Abo-Shaeer JR, Boyd MM. Optical clocks at sea. Nature 2024; 628:736-740. [PMID: 38658684 PMCID: PMC11043038 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07225-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2023] [Accepted: 02/22/2024] [Indexed: 04/26/2024]
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Deployed optical clocks will improve positioning for navigational autonomy1, provide remote time standards for geophysical monitoring2 and distributed coherent sensing3, allow time synchronization of remote quantum networks4,5 and provide operational redundancy for national time standards. Although laboratory optical clocks now reach fractional inaccuracies below 10-18 (refs. 6,7), transportable versions of these high-performing clocks8,9 have limited utility because of their size, environmental sensitivity and cost10. Here we report the development of optical clocks with the requisite combination of size, performance and environmental insensitivity for operation on mobile platforms. The 35 l clock combines a molecular iodine spectrometer, fibre frequency comb and control electronics. Three of these clocks operated continuously aboard a naval ship in the Pacific Ocean for 20 days while accruing timing errors below 300 ps per day. The clocks have comparable performance to active hydrogen masers in one-tenth the volume. Operating high-performance clocks at sea has been historically challenging and continues to be critical for navigation. This demonstration marks a significant technological advancement that heralds the arrival of future optical timekeeping networks.
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- Vector Atomic, Inc., Pleasanton, CA, USA
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Martins K, Niella Y, Albuquerque F, Eduardo LN, Oliveira P, Travassos P. Feeding behavior of yellowfin tuna around two insular regions of the western Atlantic Ocean. J Fish Biol 2024; 104:1112-1121. [PMID: 38174622 DOI: 10.1111/jfb.15646] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2023] [Revised: 10/27/2023] [Accepted: 12/11/2023] [Indexed: 01/05/2024]
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The yellowfin tuna is a very abundant tropical tuna species in the western equatorial Atlantic Ocean and an important fishery resource for the Brazilian tuna fleet. In this study we performed stable isotope analysis to better understand the spatial trophodynamics and dietary changes in yellowfin tuna around two insular marine protected areas in Brazil. A total of 65 yellowfin tuna specimens measuring between 47 and 138 cm LT (total length) were sampled around the archipelagos of Fernando de Noronha (FNA; n = 34) and Saint Peter and Saint Paul (SPSPA; n = 31) between July 2018 and September 2019. Bayesian mixing models and generalized additive models were used to investigate the contributions of four different prey items (zooplankton, cephalopods, fish larvae, and flying fish) to yellowfin tuna diet in each area and their potential changes in relation to predator growth. The four prey items were found to have different overall contributions between the two studied areas, with zooplankton being the most important prey in FNA, whereas flying fish was the most relevant prey to the species' diet in SPSPA. Significant changes in the species diet by size were also found, with fish smaller than 90 cm (TL) having a more generalist diet and larger animals relying more on consuming larger and more nutritious prey (i.e., flying fish). Our results suggest that these two marine protected areas play an important role in ocean dynamics, providing important and different foraging grounds for the development of this predator species.
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- Karla Martins
- Laboratório de Ecologia Marinha, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
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- School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
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- Laboratório de Etologia de Peixes, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Etologia de Peixes, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
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- Laboratório de Ecologia Marinha, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
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Wang ML, Fu GY, Xu XW. Flagellimonas baculiformis sp. nov. and Flagellimonas crocea sp. nov., isolated from surface seawater of the Pacific Ocean. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 2024; 74. [PMID: 38568198 DOI: 10.1099/ijsem.0.006316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/05/2024] Open
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Two Gram-negative, non-spore-forming, non-motile, non-flagellated bacteria, designated strains D6T and DH64T, were isolated from surface water of the Pacific Ocean. For strain D6T, growth occurred at 10-40 °C, pH 5.5-9.0 and in the presence of 0-8.0 % NaCl (w/v). For strain DH64T, growth occurred at 10-40 °C, pH 5.5-8.5 and in the presence of 0.5-8.0 % NaCl (w/v). Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that strains D6T and DH64T both belonged to the genera Flagellimonas, with the highest sequence identities to Flagellimonas taeanensis JCM 17757T (98.2 %) and Flagellimonas marinaquae JCM 11811T (98.6 %), respectively. The 16S rRNA gene sequence identity between strains D6T and DH64T was 95.9 %. The average amino acid identity and digital DNA-DNA hybridization values between the two strains and the nearest phylogenetic neighbours were 66.7-93.3 % and 16.1-38.5 %, respectively. The major respiratory quinone of both strains was menaquinone-6. The major polar lipid was phosphatidylethanolamine. The major fatty acids were identified similarly as iso-C15 : 1 G, iso-C15 : 0 and iso-C17 : 0 3-OH. The genomic G+C contents of strains D6T and DH64T were determined to be 45.5 and 42.6 mol%, respectively. The combined genotypic and phenotypic data show that the strains represent two novel species within genera Flagellimonas, for which the names Flagellimonas baculiformis sp. nov. and Flagellimonas crocea sp. nov. are proposed, with type strains D6T (=MCCC M28982T=KCTC 92604T) and DH64T (=MCCC M28986T=KCTC 92975T).
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- Ming-Lei Wang
- Ocean College, Zhejiang University, Zhoushan 316000, PR China
- Key Laboratory of Marine Ecosystem Dynamics, Ministry of Natural Resources & Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou 316021, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Ecosystem Dynamics, Ministry of Natural Resources & Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou 316021, PR China
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- Ocean College, Zhejiang University, Zhoushan 316000, PR China
- Key Laboratory of Marine Ecosystem Dynamics, Ministry of Natural Resources & Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou 316021, PR China
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Escarcega-Bata A, Núñez Resendiz ML, Zamudio-Resendiz ME, Dreckmann KM, Cuevas Sánchez E, Sentíes A. Morpho-molecular and environmental evidence of the ocurrence of Karenia longicanalis (Dinophyceae: Kareniaceae) as a bloom former in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Protist 2024; 175:126022. [PMID: 38350283 DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2024.126022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2023] [Revised: 01/30/2024] [Accepted: 02/01/2024] [Indexed: 02/15/2024]
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Karenia longicanalis, an athecate dinoflagellate, was first described during a bloom in Victoria Harbour (Hong Kong, China). This study confirms the presence of K. longicanalis as a bloom former in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Specimens were collected in March 2019 at three sampling stations in Acapulco Bay, Mexico. Water temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, and pH were measured in situ at the time of sample collection. Cell morphology was examined by optical and scanning electron microscopy. A molecular analysis based on the amplification of the large subunit (LSU) rDNA region revealed that the LSU sequences formed a monophyletic group with other GenBank sequences belonging to K. longicanalis. The resulting phylogeny demonstrates that Karenia is closely related to Asterodinium, Gertia, and Shimiella. The morphology of the specimens was consistent with previous descriptions.
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- Alexis Escarcega-Bata
- Doctorado en Ciencias Biológicas y de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico; Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapalapa, Departamento de Hidrobiología, Laboratorio de Macroalgas Marinas y Salobres, 09340, CdMx, Mexico.
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- Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapalapa, Departamento de Hidrobiología, Laboratorio de Macroalgas Marinas y Salobres, 09340, CdMx, Mexico
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- Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapalapa, Departamento de Hidrobiología, Laboratorio de Fitoplancton Marino y Salobre, 09340, CdMx, Mexico
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- Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapalapa, Departamento de Hidrobiología, Laboratorio de Macroalgas Marinas y Salobres, 09340, CdMx, Mexico
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- Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapalapa, Departamento de Hidrobiología, Laboratorio de Macroalgas Marinas y Salobres, 09340, CdMx, Mexico
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- Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Iztapalapa, Departamento de Hidrobiología, Laboratorio de Macroalgas Marinas y Salobres, 09340, CdMx, Mexico
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Liu Y, Li Y, Yan L, Zhang Z, Bi H, Huang H. Variability in the relationship between light scattering and chlorophyll a concentration in oligotrophic tropical regions of the Western Pacific Ocean. Opt Express 2024; 32:12141-12159. [PMID: 38571046 DOI: 10.1364/oe.504263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2023] [Accepted: 02/28/2024] [Indexed: 04/05/2024]
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It is important to determine the relationship between the concentration of chlorophyll a (Chla) and the inherent optical properties (IOPs) of ocean water to develop optical models and algorithms that characterize the biogeochemical properties and estimate biological pumping and carbon flux in this environment. However, previous studies reported relatively large variations in the particulate backscattering coefficient (bbp(λ)) and Chla from more eutrophic high-latitude waters to clear oligotrophic waters, especially in oligotrophic oceanic areas where these two variables have little covariation. In this study, we examined the variability of bbp(λ) and Chla in the euphotic layer in oligotrophic areas of the tropical Western Pacific Ocean and determined the sources of these variations by reassessment of in-situ measurements and the biogeochemical-argo (BGC-Argo) database. Our findings identified covariation of bbp(λ) and Chla in the water column below the deep Chla maximum (DCM) layer, and indicated that there was no significant correlation relationship between bbp(λ) and Chla in the upper layer of the DCM. Particles smaller than 3.2 µm that were in the water column above the DCM layer had a large effect on the bbp(λ) in the vertical profile, but particles larger than 3.2 µm and smaller than 10 µm had the largest effect on the bbp(λ) in the water column below the DCM layer. The contribution of non-algal particles (NAPs) to backscattering is up to 50%, which occurs in the water depth of 50 m and not consistent with the distribution of Chla. Phytoplankton and NAPs were modeled as coated spheres and homogeneous spherical particles to simulate the bbp(λ) of the vertical profile by Aden-Kerker method and Mie theory, and the results also indicated that the backscattering caused by particles less than 20 µm were closer to the measured data when they were below and above the DCM layer, respectively. This relationship also reflects the bbp(λ) of particles in the upper water was significantly affected particle size, but bbp(λ) in the lower water was significantly affected by Chla concentration. This effect may have relationship with phytoplankton photoacclimation and the relationship of a phytoplankton biomass maximum with particle size distribution in the water column according to the previous relevant studies. These characteristics also had spatial and seasonal variations due to changes of Chla concentration at the surface and at different depths. There was mostly a linear relationship between Chla and bbp(700) during winter. During other seasons, the relationship between these two variables was better characterized by a power function (or a logarithmic function) in the lower layer of the DCM. The spatial and vertical relationships between the bbp(λ) and Chla and the corresponding variations in the types of particles described in this study provide parameters that can be used for accurate estimation of regional geochemical processes.
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Lazo-Andrade J, Barría P, Urzúa Á. Bioenergetic status of swordfish (Xiphias gladius) during the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) in the Southeast Pacific Ocean: An interannual scale. Sci Total Environ 2024; 918:170354. [PMID: 38307276 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2023] [Revised: 01/17/2024] [Accepted: 01/20/2024] [Indexed: 02/04/2024]
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The bioenergetic status of fishes has been used to study their physiological responses to temporal changes at interannual scales. We evaluated the physiological responses of swordfish at an interannual scale from the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO): warm phase "El Niño" in 2015 to the cold phase "La Niña" in 2017 and under neutral conditions as well in 2019. Herein, muscle samples from females and males were analyzed to evaluate the bioenergetic status from their biochemical constituents (L: lipids, P: proteins and G: glucose, E: total energy, and FAs: fatty acid profile), elemental composition (C: carbon, N: nitrogen, H: hydrogen), and nutritional indices (L:P, C:N, DHA/C18:1n-3, DHA/C16:0 and ω3/ω6 FAs). The physiological response of swordfish showed an interaction between the year and sex. Herein, the L and E showed similar trends, with the lowest female values found in 2015 and the highest in 2019. Contrary, males showed their highest values in 2015 and lowest in 2019. FA profile differed among years and highlighted significant differences between females and males in 2019. Although the female L:P and C:N ratios were lower in 2015 than in 2017, a decreasing trend in these ratios was found from 2017 to 2019. Moreover, DHA/C18:1n-3, DHA/C16:0 and ω3/ω6 showed higher ratios in females than males in 2019. Our results coincide with the beginning of the ENSO phases; it is therefore likely that the swordfish diet changed in response to the disturbances in environmental conditions. Furthermore, the degree of individual dietary specialization found under the neutral conditions could indicate differences in the feeding behaviors of males vs. females, which may be an adaptive strategy in this species. These findings will aid in understanding the bioenergetic status of swordfish under different climatic scenarios and the current global warming, providing relevant information for the management of this resource.
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- Jorge Lazo-Andrade
- Programa de Magíster en Ecología Marina, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción, Chile; Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Ambientes Sustentables (CIBAS), Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción, Chile
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- Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Ambientes Sustentables (CIBAS), Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción, Chile; Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Casilla 297, Concepción, Chile.
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Couture F, Christensen V, Walters C. The combined effects of predation, fishing, and ocean productivity on salmon species targeted by marine mammals in the northeast Pacific. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0296358. [PMID: 38483870 PMCID: PMC10939214 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0296358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2023] [Accepted: 12/11/2023] [Indexed: 03/17/2024] Open
Abstract
Along the northeast Pacific coast, the salmon-eating southern resident killer whale population (SRKW, Orcinus orca) have been at very low levels since the 1970s. Previous research have suggested that reduction in food availability, especially of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), could be the main limiting factor for the SRKW population. Using the ecosystem modelling platform Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE), this study evaluated if the decline of the Pacific salmon populations between 1979 and 2020 may have been impacted by a combination of factors, including marine mammal predation, fishing activities, and climatic patterns. We found that the total mortality of most Chinook salmon populations has been relatively stable for all mature returning fish despite strong reduction in fishing mortality since the 1990s. This mortality pattern was mainly driven by pinnipeds, with increases in predation between 1979 and 2020 mortality ranging by factors of 1.8 to 8.5 across the different Chinook salmon population groups. The predation mortality on fall-run Chinook salmon smolts originating from the Salish Sea increased 4.6 times from 1979 to 2020, whereas the predation mortality on coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) smolts increased by a factor of 7.3. The model also revealed that the north Pacific gyre oscillation (NPGO) was the most important large-scale climatic index affecting the stock productivity of Chinook salmon populations from California to northern British Columbia. Overall, the model provided evidence that multiple factors may have affected Chinook salmon populations between 1979 and 2020, and suggested that predation mortality by marine mammals could be an important driver of salmon population declines during that time.
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- Fanny Couture
- Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Marine Mammals Research Program, Ocean Wise Research Institute, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Gomes DGE, Ruzicka JJ, Crozier LG, Huff DD, Brodeur RD, Stewart JD. Marine heatwaves disrupt ecosystem structure and function via altered food webs and energy flux. Nat Commun 2024; 15:1988. [PMID: 38480718 PMCID: PMC10937662 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46263-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2023] [Accepted: 02/21/2024] [Indexed: 03/17/2024] Open
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The prevalence and intensity of marine heatwaves is increasing globally, disrupting local environmental conditions. The individual and population-level impacts of prolonged heatwaves on marine species have recently been demonstrated, yet whole-ecosystem consequences remain unexplored. We leveraged time series abundance data of 361 taxa, grouped into 86 functional groups, from six long-term surveys, diet information from a new diet database, and previous modeling efforts, to build two food web networks using an extension of the popular Ecopath ecosystem modeling framework, Ecotran. We compare ecosystem models parameterized before and after the onset of recent marine heatwaves to evaluate the cascading effects on ecosystem structure and function in the Northeast Pacific Ocean. While the ecosystem-level contribution (prey) and demand (predators) of most functional groups changed following the heatwaves, gelatinous taxa experienced the largest transformations, underscored by the arrival of northward-expanding pyrosomes. We show altered trophic relationships and energy flux have potentially profound consequences for ecosystem structure and function, and raise concerns for populations of threatened and harvested species.
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- Dylan G E Gomes
- Ocean Ecology Lab, Marine Mammal Institute, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife & Conservation Sciences, Oregon State University, Newport, OR, 97365, USA.
- National Academy of Sciences NRC Postdoctoral Research Associateship, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Seattle, WA, 98112, USA.
- Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center, United States Geological Survey, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA.
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- Ecosystem Sciences Division, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Honolulu, HI, 96822, USA
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- Fish Ecology Division, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Seattle, WA, 98112, USA
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- Fish Ecology Division, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Newport, OR, 97365, USA
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- Fish Ecology Division, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Newport, OR, 97365, USA
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- Ocean Ecology Lab, Marine Mammal Institute, Department of Fisheries, Wildlife & Conservation Sciences, Oregon State University, Newport, OR, 97365, USA
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Beckett SJ, Demory D, Coenen AR, Casey JR, Dugenne M, Follett CL, Connell P, Carlson MCG, Hu SK, Wilson ST, Muratore D, Rodriguez-Gonzalez RA, Peng S, Becker KW, Mende DR, Armbrust EV, Caron DA, Lindell D, White AE, Ribalet F, Weitz JS. Disentangling top-down drivers of mortality underlying diel population dynamics of Prochlorococcus in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Nat Commun 2024; 15:2105. [PMID: 38453897 PMCID: PMC10920773 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46165-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2023] [Accepted: 02/16/2024] [Indexed: 03/09/2024] Open
Abstract
Photosynthesis fuels primary production at the base of marine food webs. Yet, in many surface ocean ecosystems, diel-driven primary production is tightly coupled to daily loss. This tight coupling raises the question: which top-down drivers predominate in maintaining persistently stable picocyanobacterial populations over longer time scales? Motivated by high-frequency surface water measurements taken in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (NPSG), we developed multitrophic models to investigate bottom-up and top-down mechanisms underlying the balanced control of Prochlorococcus populations. We find that incorporating photosynthetic growth with viral- and predator-induced mortality is sufficient to recapitulate daily oscillations of Prochlorococcus abundances with baseline community abundances. In doing so, we infer that grazers in this environment function as the predominant top-down factor despite high standing viral particle densities. The model-data fits also reveal the ecological relevance of light-dependent viral traits and non-canonical factors to cellular loss. Finally, we leverage sensitivity analyses to demonstrate how variation in life history traits across distinct oceanic contexts, including variation in viral adsorption and grazer clearance rates, can transform the quantitative and even qualitative importance of top-down controls in shaping Prochlorococcus population dynamics.
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- Stephen J Beckett
- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
- Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, USR 3579, Laboratoire de Biodiversité et Biotechnologies Microbiennes (LBBM), Observatoire Océanologique, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France.
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- School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Daniel K. Inouye Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
- Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
- Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA
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- Daniel K. Inouye Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
- Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UMR 7093, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche-sur-Mer (LOV), Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
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- Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
- Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Biology Department, San Diego Mesa College, San Diego, CA, USA
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- Faculty of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
- Department of Biological Sciences, California State University, Long Beach, CA, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA
- Department of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
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- Daniel K. Inouye Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
- Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
- School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Adobe, San Jose, CA, USA
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- Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA
- GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, Germany
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- Daniel K. Inouye Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
- Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
- Laboratory of Applied Evolutionary Biology, Department of Medical Microbiology, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Faculty of Biology, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
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- Daniel K. Inouye Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
- Department of Oceanography, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
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- School of Oceanography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
- Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
- School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.
- Institut de Biologie, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.
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Rynek R, Tekman MB, Rummel C, Bergmann M, Wagner S, Jahnke A, Reemtsma T. Hotspots of Floating Plastic Particles across the North Pacific Ocean. Environ Sci Technol 2024; 58:4302-4313. [PMID: 38394333 PMCID: PMC10919090 DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c05039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2023] [Revised: 02/01/2024] [Accepted: 02/01/2024] [Indexed: 02/25/2024]
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The pollution of the marine environment with plastic debris is expected to increase, where ocean currents and winds cause their accumulation in convergence zones like the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (NPSG). Surface-floating plastic (>330 μm) was collected in the North Pacific Ocean between Vancouver (Canada) and Singapore using a neuston catamaran and identified by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). Baseline concentrations of 41,600-102,700 items km-2 were found, dominated by polyethylene and polypropylene. Higher concentrations (factors 4-10) of plastic items occurred not only in the NPSG (452,800 items km-2) but also in a second area, the Papaha̅naumokua̅kea Marine National Monument (PMNM, 285,200 items km-2). This second maximum was neither reported previously nor predicted by the applied ocean current model. Visual observations of floating debris (>5 cm; 8-2565 items km-2 and 34-4941 items km-2 including smaller "white bits") yielded similar patterns of baseline pollution (34-3265 items km-2) and elevated concentrations of plastic debris in the NPSG (67-4941 items km-2) and the PMNM (295-3748 items km-2). These findings suggest that ocean currents are not the only factor provoking plastic debris accumulation in the ocean. Visual observations may be useful to increase our knowledge of large-scale (micro)plastic pollution in the global oceans.
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- Robby Rynek
- Department
of Analytical Chemistry, Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research − UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
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- Alfred-Wegener-Institut,
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
- Department
of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Ozyegin University, 34794 Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department
of Bioanalytical Ecotoxicology, Helmholtz-Centre
for Environmental Research − UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
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- Alfred-Wegener-Institut,
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, 27570 Bremerhaven, Germany
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- Department
of Analytical Chemistry, Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research − UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
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- Department
of Exposure Science, Helmholtz-Centre for
Environmental Research − UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
- Institute
for Environmental Research, RWTH Aachen
University, 52047 Aachen, Germany
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- Department
of Analytical Chemistry, Helmholtz Centre
for Environmental Research − UFZ, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
- Institute
of Analytical Chemistry, University of Leipzig, Linnéstrasse 3, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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Balmonte JP, Giebel HA, Arnosti C, Simon M, Wietz M. Distinct bacterial succession and functional response to alginate in the South, Equatorial, and North Pacific Ocean. Environ Microbiol 2024; 26:e16594. [PMID: 38418376 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.16594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2023] [Accepted: 01/26/2024] [Indexed: 03/01/2024]
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The availability of alginate, an abundant macroalgal polysaccharide, induces compositional and functional responses among marine microbes, but these dynamics have not been characterized across the Pacific Ocean. We investigated alginate-induced compositional and functional shifts (e.g., heterotrophic production, glucose turnover, hydrolytic enzyme activities) of microbial communities in the South Subtropical, Equatorial, and Polar Frontal North Pacific in mesocosms. We observed that shifts in response to alginate were site-specific. In the South Subtropical Pacific, prokaryotic cell counts, glucose turnover, and peptidase activities changed the most with alginate addition, along with the enrichment of the widest range of particle-associated taxa (161 amplicon sequence variants; ASVs) belonging to Alteromonadaceae, Rhodobacteraceae, Phormidiaceae, and Pseudoalteromonadaceae. Some of these taxa were detected at other sites but only enriched in the South Pacific. In the Equatorial Pacific, glucose turnover and heterotrophic prokaryotic production increased most rapidly; a single Alteromonas taxon dominated (60% of the community) but remained low (<2%) elsewhere. In the North Pacific, the particle-associated community response to alginate was gradual, with a more limited range of alginate-enriched taxa (82 ASVs). Thus, alginate-related ecological and biogeochemical shifts depend on a combination of factors that include the ability to utilize alginate, environmental conditions, and microbial interactions.
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- John Paul Balmonte
- Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Department of Earth, Marine and Environmental Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
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- Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
- Deep-Sea Ecology and Technology, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany
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Stewart AL, Pietsch TW, Moore J, Peng X. Upside-down swimming: in situ observations of inverted orientation in Gigantactis, with a new depth record for the Ceratioidei. J Fish Biol 2024; 104:887-891. [PMID: 37933516 DOI: 10.1111/jfb.15609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2023] [Revised: 11/02/2023] [Accepted: 11/02/2023] [Indexed: 11/08/2023]
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This note reports on eight observations of inverted swimming behavior by species of ceratioid whipnose anglerfishes in the genus Gigantactis, from the Caribbean, tropical east Atlantic, tropical western Indian Ocean, the north-east and north-west Pacific and south-west Pacific. It covers four putative species and strongly suggests that this is the normal behavior for the genus. A possible reason is briefly discussed. In addition, a new depth record of 5866 m for the ceratioid anglerfish is recorded.
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- Andrew L Stewart
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand
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- School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, and Curator Emeritus of Fishes, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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- Florida Atlantic University, Wilkes Honors College, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
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- Institute of Deep-Sea Science and Engineering, CAS, Sanya, China
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Victor BC, Frable BW, Ludt WB. Halichoeres sanchezi n. sp., a new wrasse from the Revillagigedo Archipelago of Mexico, tropical eastern Pacific Ocean (Teleostei: Labridae). PeerJ 2024; 12:e16828. [PMID: 38436023 PMCID: PMC10908266 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.16828] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2023] [Accepted: 01/04/2024] [Indexed: 03/05/2024] Open
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A new labrid fish species, Halichoeres sanchezi n. sp., is described from eight specimens collected in the Revillagigedo Archipelago in the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Mexico. The new species belongs to the Halichoeres melanotis species complex that is found throughout the region, differing by 2.4% in the mtDNA cytochrome c oxidase I sequence from its nearest relative, H. melanotis from Panama, and 2.9% from Halichoeres salmofasciatus from Cocos Island, off Costa Rica. The complex is distinguished from others in the region by having a black spot on the opercular flap and a prominent black area on the caudal fin of males. The juveniles and initial phase of the new species closely resemble those of H. salmofasciatus and Halichoeres malpelo from Malpelo Island of Colombia, differing in having an oblong black spot with a yellow dorsal margin on the mid-dorsal fin of initial-phase adults as well as on juveniles. In contrast, the terminal-phase male color pattern is distinct from other relatives, being vermilion to orangish brown with dark scale outlines, a white patch on the upper abdomen, and a prominent black band covering the posterior caudal peduncle and base of the caudal fin. The new species adds to the list of endemic fish species for the isolated archipelago and is an interesting case of island endemism in the region. The discovery was made during the joint 2022 collecting expedition to the archipelago, which featured a pioneering collaborative approach to an inventory of an island ichthyofauna, specifically including expert underwater photographers systematically documenting specimens in situ, before hand-collection, and then photographed fresh, tissue-sampled, and subsequently vouchered in museum collections.
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- Benjamin C. Victor
- Guy Harvey Research Institute, Nova Southeastern University, Dania Beach, Florida, United States
- Marine Biology, Ocean Science Foundation, Irvine, California, United States
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- Marine Vertebrate Collection, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, United States
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- Ichthyology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, United States
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Peterson SH, Peterson MG, Ackerman JT, Debier C, Goetsch C, Holser RR, Hückstädt LA, Johnson JC, Keates TR, McDonald BI, McHuron EA, Costa DP. Foraging behavior and age affect maternal transfer of mercury to northern elephant seal pups. Sci Rep 2024; 14:4693. [PMID: 38409311 PMCID: PMC10897339 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-54527-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2023] [Accepted: 02/13/2024] [Indexed: 02/28/2024] Open
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Deep ocean foraging northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) consume fish and squid in remote depths of the North Pacific Ocean. Contaminants bioaccumulated from prey are subsequently transferred by adult females to pups during gestation and lactation, linking pups to mercury contamination in mesopelagic food webs (200-1000 m depths). Maternal transfer of mercury to developing seal pups was related to maternal mercury contamination and was strongly correlated with maternal foraging behavior (biotelemetry and isotopes). Mercury concentrations in lanugo (hair grown in utero) were among the highest observed worldwide for young pinnipeds (geometric mean 23.01 μg/g dw, range 8.03-63.09 μg/g dw; n = 373); thus, some pups may be at an elevated risk of sub-lethal adverse health effects. Fetal mercury exposure was affected by maternal foraging geographic location and depth; mercury concentrations were highest in pups of the deepest diving, pelagic females. Moreover, pup lanugo mercury concentrations were strongly repeatable among successive pups of individual females, demonstrating relative consistency in pup mercury exposure based on maternal foraging strategies. Northern elephant seals are biosentinels of a remote deep-sea ecosystem. Our results suggest that mercury within North Pacific mesopelagic food webs may also pose an elevated risk to other mesopelagic-foraging predators and their offspring.
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- Sarah H Peterson
- Western Ecological Research Center, Dixon Field Station, U.S. Geological Survey, 800 Business Park Drive Suite D, Dixon, CA, USA.
- Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Western Ecological Research Center, Dixon Field Station, U.S. Geological Survey, 800 Business Park Drive Suite D, Dixon, CA, USA
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- Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
- CSS, Inc, Fairfax, VA, USA
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- Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
- Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn, UK
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- Moss Landing Marine Labs, San Jose State University, Moss Landing, CA, USA
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- Department of Ocean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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- Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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Xu S, Kaldy JE, Zhang X, Yue S, Suonan Z, Zhou Y. Comparison of metals in eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) and the environment across the North Pacific Ocean: Environmental processes drive source delivery. Environ Pollut 2024; 343:123096. [PMID: 38070647 PMCID: PMC11025321 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2023.123096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2023] [Revised: 11/30/2023] [Accepted: 12/02/2023] [Indexed: 12/26/2023]
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Seagrass beds play a critical role in biodiversity maintenance, serving as nursery habitats for fisheries, and aiding in carbon and sediment sequestration in the ecosystem. These habitats receive dissolved and particulate material inputs, like nutrients and heavy metals, affecting both plant health and the ecosystem. Eelgrass (Zostera marina L.), sediments, and water were randomly collected at twenty sites along the temperate North Pacific coasts of Asia and North America to assess heavy metals concentrations (Cr, Cu, Zn, Cd, and Pb). This aimed to understand heavy metal distribution and accumulation patterns in eelgrass tissues, revealing crucial factors influencing metal accumulation. The sampling included various areas, from pristine marine reserves to human-influenced zones, covering industrial, agricultural, and aquaculture regions, enabling a thorough analysis. This study's uniqueness lies in comparing heavy metal distributions in eelgrass tissues with sediments, uncovering unique accumulation patterns. Aboveground eelgrass tissues mainly accumulated Cd, Zn, and Cu, while belowground tissues stored Cr and Pb. Aboveground eelgrass tissues proved reliable in indicating Cd and Pb concentrations in sediments. However, the correlation between Cu, Zn, and Cr in eelgrass tissues and environmental concentrations seemed less direct, requiring further investigation into factors affecting metal accumulation in seagrass. Human activities are probable major contributors to heavy metal presence in Asian marine environments, whereas oceanographic processes serve as primary metal sources in North American Pacific estuaries. Critical discoveries emphasize the necessity for ongoing research on phytotoxic thresholds and in-depth studies on the complex connections between seagrass physiology and environmental metal concentrations. Understanding these dynamics is crucial for evaluating the broader impact of heavy metal pollution on coastal ecosystems and developing effective conservation measures.
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- Shaochun Xu
- CAS Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China; Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266237, China; Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China; CAS Engineering Laboratory for Marine Ranching, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China; Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Qingdao, 266071, China
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- Pacific Ecological Systems Division, US EPA, 2111 SE Marine Science Center Dr., Newport, OR, 97365, USA
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China; Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266237, China; Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China; CAS Engineering Laboratory for Marine Ranching, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China; Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Qingdao, 266071, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China; Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266237, China; Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China; CAS Engineering Laboratory for Marine Ranching, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China; Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Qingdao, 266071, China
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Pusan National University, Buson, 46241, Republic of Korea
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China; Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, 266237, China; Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China; CAS Engineering Laboratory for Marine Ranching, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266071, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China; Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology, Qingdao, 266071, China.
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Tominaga K, Takebe H, Murakami C, Tsune A, Okamura T, Ikegami T, Onishi Y, Kamikawa R, Yoshida T. Population-level prokaryotic community structures associated with ferromanganese nodules in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone ( Pacific Ocean) revealed by 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. Environ Microbiol Rep 2024; 16:e13224. [PMID: 38146681 PMCID: PMC10866075 DOI: 10.1111/1758-2229.13224] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2023] [Accepted: 12/01/2023] [Indexed: 12/27/2023]
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Although deep-sea ferromanganese nodules are a potential resource for exploitation, their formation mechanisms remain unclear. Several nodule-associated prokaryotic species have been identified by amplicon sequencing of 16S rRNA genes and are assumed to contribute to nodule formation. However, the recent development of amplicon sequence variant (ASV)-level monitoring revealed that closely related prokaryotic populations within an operational taxonomic unit often exhibit distinct ecological properties. Thus, conventional species-level monitoring might have overlooked nodule-specific populations when distinct populations of the same species were present in surrounding environments. Herein, we examined the prokaryotic community diversity of nodules and surrounding environments at the Clarion-Clipperton Zone in Japanese licensed areas by 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing with ASV-level resolution for three cruises from 2017 to 2019. Prokaryotic community composition and diversity were distinct by habitat type: nodule, nodule-surface mud, sediment, bottom water and water column. Most ASVs (~80%) were habitat-specific. We identified 178 nodule-associated ASVs and 41 ASVs associated with nodule-surface mud via linear discriminant effect size analysis. Moreover, several ASVs, such as members of SAR324 and Woeseia, were highly specific to nodules. These nodule-specific ASVs are promising targets for future investigation of the nodule formation process.
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- Kento Tominaga
- Graduate School of AgricultureKyoto UniversityKyotoJapan
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- Graduate School of AgricultureKyoto UniversityKyotoJapan
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- Deep Ocean Resources Development Co., Ltd.TokyoJapan
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- Graduate School of AgricultureKyoto UniversityKyotoJapan
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Pérez-Ponce de León G, Solórzano-García B, Huston DC, Mendoza-Garfias B, Cabañas-Granillo J, Cutmore SC, Cribb TH. Molecular species delimitation of marine trematodes over wide geographical ranges: Schikhobalotrema spp. (Digenea: Haplosplanchnidae) in needlefishes (Belonidae) from the Pacific Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. Parasitology 2024; 151:168-180. [PMID: 38037706 PMCID: PMC10941045 DOI: 10.1017/s0031182023001245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2023] [Revised: 11/06/2023] [Accepted: 11/25/2023] [Indexed: 12/02/2023]
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Geographical distribution plays a major role in our understanding of marine biodiversity. Some marine fish trematodes have been shown to have highly restricted geographical distributions, while some are known to occur over very wide ranges; however, very few of these wide distributions have been demonstrated genetically. Here, we analyse species of the genus Schikhobalotrema (Haplosplanchnidae) parasitizing beloniforms from the tropical west Pacific, the eastern Pacific and the Gulf of Mexico (GoM). We test the boundaries of these trematodes by integrating molecular and morphological data, host association, habitat of the hosts and geographical distribution, following a recently proposed and standardized delineation method for the recognition of marine trematode species. Based on the new collections, Schikhobalotrema huffmani is here synonymized with the type-species of the genus, Schikhobalotrema acutum; Sch. acutum is now considered to be widely distributed, from the GoM to the western Pacific. Additionally, we describe a new species, Schikhobalotrema minutum n. sp., from Strongylura notata and Strongylura marina (Belonidae) from La Carbonera coastal lagoon, northern Yucatán, GoM. We briefly discuss the role of host association and historical biogeography of the hosts as drivers of species diversification of Schikhobalotrema infecting beloniforms.
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- Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León
- Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores unidad Mérida, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Tablaje Catastral No. 6998, Carretera Mérida-Tetiz Km. 4.5, Municipio de Ucú, 97357 Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
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- Escuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores unidad Mérida, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Tablaje Catastral No. 6998, Carretera Mérida-Tetiz Km. 4.5, Municipio de Ucú, 97357 Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
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- Australian National Insect Collection, National Research Collections Australia, CSIRO, PO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ap. Postal 70-153. C.P., 045 10 Mexico, DF, Mexico
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- Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ap. Postal 70-153. C.P., 045 10 Mexico, DF, Mexico
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- Queensland Museum, Biodiversity and Geosciences Program, South Brisbane, QLD 4101, Australia
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- School of the Environment, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia
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Liu Y, Mao Y, Gui J, Long Y, Wen Y, Xie S, Sun J. Stratification of dissolved organic matter in the upper 5000 m water column in the western Pacific Ocean. Mar Environ Res 2024; 194:106346. [PMID: 38215625 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2024.106346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2023] [Revised: 12/12/2023] [Accepted: 01/07/2024] [Indexed: 01/14/2024]
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Marine dissolved organic matter (DOM) is a principal reservoir involved in biogeochemical cycles and exerts a pivotal influence on global carbon flux dynamics. In this study, excitation-emission matrix fluorescence spectroscopy combined with parallel factor analysis (EEM-PARAFAC) was conducted on 230 DOM samples collected from 21 sites between February and April 2022 in the Western Pacific Ocean (WPO). We identified five distinct fluorescence peaks (peaks B, T, A, C, and M), predominantly protein-like and humic-like components. These findings, marked by significant differences (p < 0.01) in fluorescence intensities and spectral indices, characterized the transformation of DOM with ocean depth, illustrating a transition from active to recalcitrant forms. Additionally, random forest analysis (RFA) identified depth as a key factor influencing marine dissolved organic carbon (DOC), with a 32.59% importance value. Correlations between hydrological and fluorescent parameters underscored the complexity of DOM sources and influencing processes. Overall, this work broadens our understanding of DOM variability in the upper 5000 m of the WPO, enhancing our knowledge of the marine environment's role in the global carbon cycle.
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- Yang Liu
- School of Life Science, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, 030006, China; Research Centre for Indian Ocean Ecosystem, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, 300457, China
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- College of Marine Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Wuhan 430074, PR China; Research Centre for Indian Ocean Ecosystem, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, 300457, China
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- College of Marine Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Wuhan 430074, PR China; Research Centre for Indian Ocean Ecosystem, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, 300457, China
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- College of Marine Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Wuhan 430074, PR China; Research Centre for Indian Ocean Ecosystem, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, 300457, China
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- Research Centre for Indian Ocean Ecosystem, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, 300457, China
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- School of Life Science, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, 030006, China
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- College of Marine Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Wuhan 430074, PR China; Research Centre for Indian Ocean Ecosystem, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, 300457, China.
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Ji S, Tian Y, Xu G, Chen Y, Li J, Long T, He W, Fan J, Tang X. Complete genome sequence analysis of Bacillus velezensis A5, a promising biocontrol agent from the Pacific Ocean. Mar Genomics 2024; 73:101087. [PMID: 38365347 DOI: 10.1016/j.margen.2024.101087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2023] [Accepted: 01/24/2024] [Indexed: 02/18/2024]
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Tobacco bacterial wilt (TBW) caused by Ralstonia solanacearum is a serious soil-borne disease, which seriously damages the growth of tobacco crops. Bacillus velezensis A5 was isolated from 3000 m deep-sea sediments of the Pacific Ocean, and was found to be antagonistic to TBW. Here, we report the complete genome sequence of strain A5, which has a 4,000,699-bp single circular chromosome with 3827 genes and a G + C content of 46.44%, 87 tRNAs, and 27 rRNAs. A total of 12 gene clusters were identified in the genome of strain A5, which were responsible for the biosynthesis of antibacterial compounds, including surfactin, bacillaene, fengycin, difficidin, bacillibactin, and bacilysin. Additionally, strain A5 was found to contain a series of genes related to the biosynthesis of carbohydrate-active enzymes and secreted proteins. Our results indicate that strain A5 can be considered a promising biocontrol agent against TBW in agricultural fields.
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- Shunhua Ji
- Technology Center, China Tobacco Fujian Industrial Co., Ltd., Xiamen 361021, Fujian, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China
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- Technology Center, China Tobacco Fujian Industrial Co., Ltd., Xiamen 361021, Fujian, China
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- Technology Center, China Tobacco Fujian Industrial Co., Ltd., Xiamen 361021, Fujian, China
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- Technology Center, China Tobacco Fujian Industrial Co., Ltd., Xiamen 361021, Fujian, China
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- Technology Center, China Tobacco Fujian Industrial Co., Ltd., Xiamen 361021, Fujian, China
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- Technology Center, China Tobacco Fujian Industrial Co., Ltd., Xiamen 361021, Fujian, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China.
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Kiel S, Goedert JL, Huynh TL, Krings M, Parkinson D, Romero R, Looy CV. Early Oligocene kelp holdfasts and stepwise evolution of the kelp ecosystem in the North Pacific. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2024; 121:e2317054121. [PMID: 38227671 PMCID: PMC10823212 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2317054121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/02/2023] [Accepted: 11/27/2023] [Indexed: 01/18/2024] Open
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Kelp forests are highly productive and economically important ecosystems worldwide, especially in the North Pacific Ocean. However, current hypotheses for their evolutionary origins are reliant on a scant fossil record. Here, we report fossil hapteral kelp holdfasts from western Washington State, USA, indicating that kelp has existed in the northeastern Pacific Ocean since the earliest Oligocene. This is consistent with the proposed North Pacific origin of kelp associated with global cooling around the Eocene-Oligocene transition. These fossils also support the hypotheses that a hapteral holdfast, rather than a discoid holdfast, is the ancestral state in complex kelps and suggest that early kelps likely had a flexible rather than a stiff stipe. Early kelps were possibly grazed upon by mammals like desmostylians, but fossil evidence of the complex ecological interactions known from extant kelp forests is lacking. The fossil record further indicates that the present-day, multi-story kelp forest had developed at latest after the mid-Miocene climate optimum. In summary, the fossils signify a stepwise evolution of the kelp ecosystem in the North Pacific, likely enabled by changes in the ocean-climate system.
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- Steffen Kiel
- Department of Palaeobiology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm10405, Sweden
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- Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington, Seattle, WA98195
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- School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA94143
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- Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns-Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie, Munich80333, Germany
- Department für Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften, Paläontologie und Geobiologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich80333, Germany
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- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA94720
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA94720
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- Department of Integrative Biology, Museum of Paleontology, and Herbarium, University of California, Berkeley, CA94720
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Holbert S, Colbourne K, Fisk AT, Ross PS, MacDuffee M, Gobas FAPC, Brown TM. Polychlorinated biphenyl and polybrominated diphenyl ether profiles vary with feeding ecology and marine rearing distribution among 10 Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) stocks in the North Pacific Ocean. Environ Res 2024; 241:117476. [PMID: 37879388 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2023.117476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2023] [Revised: 10/20/2023] [Accepted: 10/21/2023] [Indexed: 10/27/2023]
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Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) along the west coast of North America have experienced significant declines in abundance and body size over recent decades due to several anthropogenic stressors. Understanding the reasons underlying the relatively high levels of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in Chinook stocks is an important need, as it informs recovery planning for this foundation species, as well for the Chinook-dependent Resident killer whales (Orcinus orca, RKW) of British Columbia (Canada) and Washington State (USA). We evaluated the influence of stock-related differences in feeding ecology, using stable isotopes, and marine rearing ground on the concentrations and patterns of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in Chinook salmon. A principal components analysis (PCA) revealed a clear divergence of PCB and PBDE congener patterns between Chinook with a nearshore rearing distribution ('shelf resident') versus a more offshore distribution. Shelf resident Chinook had 12-fold higher PCB concentrations and 46-fold higher PBDE concentrations relative to offshore stocks. Shelf resident Chinook had PCB and PBDE profiles that were heavier and dominated by more bioaccumulative congeners, respectively. The higher δ13C and δ15N in shelf resident Chinook compared to the offshore rearing stocks, and their different marine distributions explain the large divergence in contaminant levels and profiles, with shelf resident stocks being heavily influenced by land-based sources of industrial contamination. Results provide compelling new insight into the drivers of contaminant accumulation in Chinook salmon, raise important questions about the consequences for their health, and explain a major pathway to the heavily POP-contaminated Resident killer whales that consume them.
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- S Holbert
- School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada; Pacific Science Enterprise Centre, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, West Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Pacific Science Enterprise Centre, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, West Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- School of the Environment, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada
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- Raincoast Conservation Foundation, Sidney, BC, Canada
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- Raincoast Conservation Foundation, Sidney, BC, Canada
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- School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada; Pacific Science Enterprise Centre, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, West Vancouver, BC, Canada; School of the Environment, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada.
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Gleiber MR, Hardy NA, Roote Z, Krug-MacLeod AM, Morganson CJ, Tandy Z, George I, Matuch C, Brookson CB, Daly EA, Portner EJ, Choy CA, Crowder LB, Green SJ. The Pelagic Species Trait Database, an open data resource to support trait-based ocean research. Sci Data 2024; 11:2. [PMID: 38216562 PMCID: PMC10786825 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02689-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2023] [Accepted: 10/25/2023] [Indexed: 01/14/2024] Open
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Trait-based frameworks are increasingly used for predicting how ecological communities respond to ongoing global change. As species range shifts result in novel encounters between predators and prey, identifying prey 'guilds', based on a suite of shared traits, can distill complex species interactions, and aid in predicting food web dynamics. To support advances in trait-based research in open-ocean systems, we present the Pelagic Species Trait Database, an extensive resource documenting functional traits of 529 pelagic fish and invertebrate species in a single, open-source repository. We synthesized literature sources and online resources, conducted morphometric analysis of species images, as well as laboratory analyses of trawl-captured specimens to collate traits describing 1) habitat use and behavior, 2) morphology, 3) nutritional quality, and 4) population status information. Species in the dataset primarily inhabit the California Current system and broader NE Pacific Ocean, but also includes pelagic species known to be consumed by top ocean predators from other ocean basins. The aim of this dataset is to enhance the use of trait-based approaches in marine ecosystems and for predator populations worldwide.
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- Miram R Gleiber
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2R3, Canada.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2R3, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2R3, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2R3, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2R3, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2R3, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2R3, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2R3, Canada
- California State University, Monterey Bay, CA, 93955, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2R3, Canada
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- Cooperative Institute for Marine Ecosystem and Resources Studies, Oregon State University, Newport, OR, 97365, USA
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- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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- Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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- Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2R3, Canada.
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Kisnarti EA, Ningsih NS, Putri MR, Hendiarti N, Mayer B. Dispersion of surface floating plastic marine debris from Indonesian waters using hydrodynamic and trajectory models. Mar Pollut Bull 2024; 198:115779. [PMID: 38000264 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115779] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2023] [Revised: 11/07/2023] [Accepted: 11/11/2023] [Indexed: 11/26/2023]
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Plastic waste has become the most significant component of marine debris, while research on traces of marine plastic waste related to the condition of Indonesian waters is still limited. Therefore, this study examines the movement patterns of plastic marine debris in Indonesian waters. Simulations were carried out for one year (2013) using the HAMburg Shelf Ocean Model (hydrodynamic model) and Lagrange trajectory. The approach treated the simulated particles as conservative particles floating at sea. Even though the percentage is small (±16 %), Indonesia contributes to transboundary marine debris in the Pacific Ocean, Indian Ocean, and the South China Sea due to the influence of the south equatorial currents moving from north and south of Indonesia. Most of the plastic marine debris remains in Indonesian waters (±80-84 %) and moves back and forth due to the influence of the monsoon currents. Therefore, the Java Sea becomes a crossing point and accumulates plastic marine debris.
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- Engki A Kisnarti
- Study Program of Oceanography, Faculty of Engineering and Marine Science, University of Hang Tuah, Indonesia.
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- Research Group of Oceanography, Institute Technology of Bandung, Indonesia
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- Deputy for Coordination of Environment and Forestry Management, Coordinating Ministry for Maritime and Investment Affairs, Indonesia
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- Institute of Oceanography, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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Thi YVN, Vu TD, Do VQ, Ngo AD, Show PL, Chu DT. Residual toxins on aquatic animals in the Pacific areas: Current findings and potential health effects. Sci Total Environ 2024; 906:167390. [PMID: 37758133 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167390] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2023] [Revised: 09/20/2023] [Accepted: 09/24/2023] [Indexed: 10/03/2023]
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The Pacific Ocean is among the five largest and deepest oceans in the world. The area of the Pacific Ocean covers about 28 % of the Earth's surface. This is the habitat of many marine species, and its diversity is recognized as a fundamental element of Pacific culture and heritage. The ecosystems of aquatic animals are highly affected by climate change and by other factors. Residual toxins on aquatic animals can be categorized into two types based on origin: toxins of marine origin and toxins associated with human activity. Residual toxins have emerged as a global concern in recent years due to their frequent presence in aquatic environments. Furthermore, residual toxins in organisms living in the marine environment in the Pacific Ocean region also seriously affect food safety, food security, and especially human health. In this review we discuss important issues about residual toxins on aquatic animals in the Pacific areas specifically about the types of toxins that exist in marine animals, their contamination pathways in the Asia, Pacific region and the potential health effects for humans, the application of information technology and artificial intelligence in residual toxins on aquatic animal.
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- Yen Vy Nguyen Thi
- Center for Biomedicine and Community Health, International School, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Viet Nam; Faculty of Applied Sciences, International School, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Viet Nam
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- Center for Biomedicine and Community Health, International School, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Viet Nam
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- Center for Biomedicine and Community Health, International School, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Viet Nam
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- Center for Biomedicine and Community Health, International School, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Viet Nam
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Khalifa University, P.O. Box 127788, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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- Center for Biomedicine and Community Health, International School, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Viet Nam; Faculty of Applied Sciences, International School, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Viet Nam.
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Spear LN, Kohin S, Mohan JA, Wells RJD. Insights into vertebral band pair deposition rate in the juvenile common thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus) in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. J Fish Biol 2024; 104:104-112. [PMID: 37624583 DOI: 10.1111/jfb.15538] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2023] [Revised: 08/21/2023] [Accepted: 08/23/2023] [Indexed: 08/26/2023]
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Validation of band pair deposition rates in elasmobranch vertebrae is essential for accurate age estimation using band pair counting techniques. We present a validation study of the vertebral band pair deposition rate for juvenile common thresher sharks Alopias vulpinus in the northeastern Pacific Ocean (NEPO) using tag and recapture with oxytetracycline (OTC) injection. A total of 14 juvenile A. vulpinus marked with OTC from 1998 through 2013 were recaptured with times at liberty ranging from 1.08 to 3.81 years with an average of 2.14 years (±0.97 years standard deviation, SD). Shark size ranged from 80 to 128 cm fork length (LF) at the time of OTC injection and from 112 to 168 cm LF for those measured at recapture. The slopes of the relationships between band pairs post OTC and years at liberty for each reader ranged from 0.84 to 0.95, slightly lower than the 1.0 slope expected from annual band pair formation. These findings preliminarily support previous age and growth assumptions based on a one band pair per year deposition rate. However, high variation in band pair deposition rates between samples, coupled with regression slopes falling just under one band pair per year, indicates that further investigation is needed to refine band pair deposition rate estimates.
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- Luka N Spear
- Fisheries Resources Division, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, La Jolla, California, USA
- Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, USA
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- Fisheries Resources Division, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, La Jolla, California, USA
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- School of Marine and Environmental Programs, University of New England, Biddeford, Maine, USA
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- Department of Marine Biology, Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, Texas, USA
- Department of Ecology & Conservation Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
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Núñez-Flores M, Solórzano A, Avaria-Llautureo J, Gomez-Uchida D, López-González PJ. Diversification dynamics of a common deep-sea octocoral family linked to the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2024; 190:107945. [PMID: 37863452 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2022] [Revised: 10/16/2023] [Accepted: 10/17/2023] [Indexed: 10/22/2023]
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The deep-sea has experienced dramatic changes in physical and chemical variables in the geological past. However, little is known about how deep-sea species richness responded to such changes over time and space. Here, we studied the diversification dynamics of one of the most diverse octocorallian families inhabiting deep sea benthonic environments worldwide and sustaining highly diverse ecosystems, Primnoidae. A newly dated species-level phylogeny was constructed to infer their ancestral geographic locations and dispersal rates initially. Then, we tested whether their global and regional (the Southern Ocean) diversification dynamics were mediated by dispersal rate and abiotic factors as changes in ocean geochemistry. Finally, we tested whether primnoids showed changes in speciation and extinction at discrete time points. Our results suggested primnoids likely originated in the southwestern Pacific Ocean during the Lower Cretaceous ∼112 Ma, with further dispersal after the physical separation of continental landmasses along the late Mesozoic and Cenozoic. Only the speciation rate of the Southern Ocean primnoids showed a significant correlation to ocean chemistry. Moreover, the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum marked a significant increase in the diversification of primnoids at global and regional scales. Our results provide new perspectives on the macroevolutionary and biogeographic patterns of an ecologically important benthic organism typically found in deep-sea environments.
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- Mónica Núñez-Flores
- Centro de Investigación de Estudios Avanzados del Maule, Vicerrectoría de Investigación y Postgrado Universidad Católica del Maule, Talca, Chile; Laboratorio Ecología de Abejas, Departamento de Biología y Química, Facultad de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad Católica del Maule, Talca, Chile.
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- Escuela de Geología, Departamento de Biología y Química, Facultad de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad Católica del Maule, Talca, Chile
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- Genomics in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Laboratory (GEECLAB), Department of Zoology, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Oceanográficas, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile
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- Biodiversidad y Ecología Acuática. Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Sevilla, Reina Mercedes 6, 41012 Sevilla, Spain
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Fernández-Macho J. Forecasting marine spill risk along the U.S. Pacific coasts. Mar Pollut Bull 2024; 198:115826. [PMID: 38039571 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2023] [Revised: 11/12/2023] [Accepted: 11/17/2023] [Indexed: 12/03/2023]
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This study analyzes historical trends and forecasts of spill risks in coastal counties along the U.S. Pacific, including Alaska and Hawaii. The method calculates spill impact, which rises with size but diminishes with age and distance from the coast. Over the past two decades, spill risks in California and Washington have increased significantly. Coastal counties in Puget Sound and San Francisco Bay have seen the highest increases, surpassing 2000 levels by 79 % and 39 %, respectively. Alaska experienced a moderate rise, while Oregon and Hawaii had smaller but noteworthy increases. Ocean currents may reduce risk by 38 % on average. Most counties are expected to experience increasing spill risks, particularly in Southern California and Southwest Washington, which could see nearly a 50 % increase by 2033 compared to present levels. These findings can help coastal zone monitoring and inform policies for protecting coastal regions, regulating marine transportation and reducing spill vulnerability.
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- Javier Fernández-Macho
- Dpt. of Quantitative Methods, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain; Center for the Blue Economy, MIIS, Monterey, CA, USA.
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Jose A, Sukumaran S, Roul SK, Azeez PA, Kizhakudan SJ, Raj N, Nisha K, Gopalakrishnan A. Genetic analyses reveal panmixia in Indian waters and population subdivision across Indian Ocean and Indo-Malay Archipelago for Decapterus russelli. Sci Rep 2023; 13:22860. [PMID: 38129501 PMCID: PMC10739887 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-49805-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2023] [Accepted: 12/12/2023] [Indexed: 12/23/2023] Open
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The Indian Scad, Decapterus russelli is an important pelagic carangid widely distributed throughout the Indian Ocean and the Indo-West Pacific. Despite being widely distributed in the Indian Ocean, the information regarding genetic structuring and diversity has been lacking compared to its Indo Malay Archipelago counterparts. The present study was conducted to investigate the genetic stock structure of D. russelli based on mitochondrial (Cyt b) and nuclear (DrAldoB1) markers along Indian waters. The results indicated the presence of a single panmictic stock across the Indian Ocean region. High haplotype diversity associated with low nucleotide diversity suggested a population bottleneck followed by rapid population growth. Phylogenetic analysis revealed the absence of geographical clustering of lineages with the most common haplotype distributed globally. The pelagic life style, migratory capabilities, and larval dispersal may be the contributing factors to the observed spatial homogeneity of D. russelli. However, significant genetic differentiation was observed between the populations from Indian Ocean and Indo-Malay Archipelago. Hierarchical molecular variance analysis (AMOVA), pairwise FST comparisons and SAMOVA showed existence of two distinct genetic stocks of D. russelli in the Indian Ocean and IMA. The observed interpopulation genetic variation was high. A plausible explanation for the genetic differentiation observed between the Indo-Malay Archipelago and the Indian Ocean regions suggest the influence of historic isolation, ocean surface currents and biotic and abiotic features of the ocean. Also, there was a significant relationship between genetic distance and geographical distance between population pairs in a manner consistent with isolation-by-distance. These resulted in the evolution of a phylogeographic break for this species between these regions. The findings of these results suggest that D. russelli from the Indian Ocean shall be managed in its entire area of distribution as a single stock. Further, the Indian Ocean and Indo-Malayan stocks can be managed separately.
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- Anjaly Jose
- Marine Biotechnology Fish Nutrition and Health Division, ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Ernakulam North P O, Kochi, Kerala, 682018, India.
- Mangalore University, Mangalagangotri, Mangalore, Karnataka, 574199, India.
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- Marine Biotechnology Fish Nutrition and Health Division, ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Ernakulam North P O, Kochi, Kerala, 682018, India
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- Marine Biotechnology Fish Nutrition and Health Division, ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Ernakulam North P O, Kochi, Kerala, 682018, India
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- Marine Biotechnology Fish Nutrition and Health Division, ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Ernakulam North P O, Kochi, Kerala, 682018, India
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- Marine Biotechnology Fish Nutrition and Health Division, ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Ernakulam North P O, Kochi, Kerala, 682018, India
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- Marine Biotechnology Fish Nutrition and Health Division, ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Ernakulam North P O, Kochi, Kerala, 682018, India
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- Marine Biotechnology Fish Nutrition and Health Division, ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Ernakulam North P O, Kochi, Kerala, 682018, India
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- Marine Biotechnology Fish Nutrition and Health Division, ICAR-Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Ernakulam North P O, Kochi, Kerala, 682018, India
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Moravec F, Dykman LN, Davis DB. Three new species of Ascarophis van Beneden, 1871 (Nematoda: Cystidicolidae) from deep-sea hydrothermal vent fishes of the Pacific Ocean. Syst Parasitol 2023; 101:2. [PMID: 38105271 DOI: 10.1007/s11230-023-10130-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2023] [Accepted: 10/18/2023] [Indexed: 12/19/2023]
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Examinations of some deep-sea hydrothermal vent fishes from the western and eastern regions of the Pacific Ocean revealed the presence of three new species of Ascarophis van Beneden, 1871 (Nematoda: Cystidicolidae), all gastrointestinal parasites, namely: A. justinei n. sp. from Thermarces cerberus Rosenblatt & Cohen (type host) and Thermichthys hollisi Cohen, Rosemblatt & Moser (both Zoarcidae, Perciformes) and A. globuligera n. sp. from T. cerberus from the Northern East Pacific Rise, and A. monofilamentosa n. sp. from Pyrolicus manusanus Machida & Hashimoto (Zoarcidae, Perciformes) from the Manus Basin near Papua New Guinea. Specimens are described and illustrated based on light and scanning electron microscopical examinations. In addition to other morphological differences, all the three new species differ from each other by the structure of eggs: eggs bearing a lateral superficial swelling (A. globuligera n. sp.), eggs with one conspicuously long filament on one pole (A. monofilamentosa n. sp.) and eggs smooth, without any filaments or swellings (A. justinei n. sp.). The egg morphology of the two first-named species is unique within all species of Ascarophis, which indicates that all the three newly described species of Ascarophis are probably endemic to the respective hydrothermal vents as their fish hosts.
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- František Moravec
- Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Branišovská 31, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
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- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 266 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA, 02543, USA
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- Eckerd College, 4200 54th Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL, 33711, USA
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Fee GN, Roura A, Emami-Khoyi A, Teske PR. The complete mitochondrial genome of Octopus vulgaris. Mol Biol Rep 2023; 51:21. [PMID: 38108856 PMCID: PMC10728262 DOI: 10.1007/s11033-023-08984-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2023] [Accepted: 11/23/2023] [Indexed: 12/19/2023]
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BACKGROUND The Octopus vulgaris species complex consists of numerous morphologically similar but genetically distinct species. The current publicly available mitogenome of this species has been generated from a specimen collected from Tsukiji Fish Market, Tokyo, Japan. Octopus from the northwestern Pacific Ocean are now considered to be a separate species, Octopus sinensis. For this reason, we hypothesised that the current record of O. vulgaris was sequenced from a specimen of O. sinensis. Here, we sequenced the first complete mitogenome of a specimen of Octopus vulgaris sensu stricto that was collected from the species' confirmed distribution areas in northeastern Atlantic. METHODS AND RESULTS The complete mitogenome was assembled de novo and annotated using 250 bp paired-end sequences. A single circular contig 15,655 bp in length with a mean read coverage of 1089 reads was reconstructed. The annotation pipeline identified 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 transfer RNAs (tRNA) and two ribosomal RNAs. A maximum likelihood phylogenetic tree recovered the assembled mitogenome as the sister taxon of a monophyletic group comprising O. sinensis and the previously published mitogenome of "O. vulgaris" from Japan. This confirms that the latter was a Japanese specimen of O. sinensis. CONCLUSION The mitogenome sequenced here is the first to be published for Octopus vulgaris sensu stricto. It represents an important first step in genetics-informed research on the evolution, conservation, and management of this commercially important species.
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- Gareth N Fee
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
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- Departamento de Ecología y Biodiversidad Marina, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas, Vigo, Spain
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- Department of Zoology, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, South Africa
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- Department of Zoology, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, South Africa
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Goggin CL, Leung TLF, Byrne M, Murphy NE, Koen T. Prevalence of the scuticociliate Orchitophrya stellarum in seastars from the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Dis Aquat Organ 2023; 156:89-98. [PMID: 38095364 DOI: 10.3354/dao03764] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2023]
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As part of a study to investigate the use of the scuticociliate Orchitophrya stellarum as a biological control for the invasive seastar Asterias amurensis in Australia, we collected prevalence data for O. stellarum from 3 seastar species (A. amurensis, A. rubens, Pisaster ochraceus) between 1996 and 1999 from the Pacific (Australia, Japan, Korea, Canada) and Atlantic (France, Netherlands, Canada) oceans. In the Pacific Ocean, for the first time, we found O. stellarum in male A. amurensis in Korea and female A. amurensis in Japan. The parasite was not detected in the invasive A. amurensis from Australia. There was no significant difference between size of infected and uninfected male seastars, nor a correlation between biased sex ratio and parasite prevalence in populations in the Pacific or Atlantic oceans. Therefore, unlike other studies, we found size and sex ratio in seastar populations in the field are unreliable indicators of parasite impacts. Regular monitoring of infected seastar populations in the field would be useful to better understand how sex ratio varies with parasite prevalence. We recommend laboratory studies under controlled conditions to determine the effect of O. stellarum on seastar populations.
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- C Louise Goggin
- CSIRO Marine Laboratories, 3-4 Castray Esplanade, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia
- Lismore, NSW 2480, Australia
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- Zoology, School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Marine Studies Institute, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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- CSIRO Environment, Ecosciences Precinct, 41 Boggo Road, Dutton Park, QLD 4102, Australia
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- Department of Land and Water Conservation, Cowra, NSW 2794, Australia
- Cowra, NSW 2794, Australia
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Laraib M, Titocci J, Rosati I, Basset A. An integrated individual-level trait-based phytoplankton dataset from transitional waters. Sci Data 2023; 10:897. [PMID: 38092782 PMCID: PMC10719296 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02785-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2023] [Accepted: 11/23/2023] [Indexed: 12/17/2023] Open
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Functional trait-based approaches have undergone an extraordinary expansion in phytoplankton ecology. Morpho-functional traits have been shown to vary both within and between populations and species, potentially affecting individual fitness and the network of inter-individual relationships. Here we integrate six fully harmonized phytoplankton morpho-functional trait datasets, characterized by a fine data grain, reporting individual-level data over a large biogeographical area. Datasets refer to transitional water ecosystems, from five biogeographical areas: Northern Atlantic Ocean (Scotland), South-Western Atlantic Ocean (Brazil), South-Western Pacific Ocean (Australia), Indo Pacific Ocean (Maldives) and Mediterranean Sea (Greece and Turkey). The integrated dataset includes 127311 individual phytoplankton records with sampling locations, taxonomic and morphometric information according to Darwin Core standards and semantic annotations. The six FAIR datasets are openly available in the LifeWatch Italy data portal. The datasets have already been used for morpho-functional analyses and hypothesis testing on phytoplankton guilds at different levels of data aggregation and scale, from local to global.
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- Maira Laraib
- University of Salento, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies (DiSTeBA), Lecce, Italy.
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- Italian National Research Council (CNR), Institute for Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), Lecce, Italy.
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- Italian National Research Council (CNR), Institute for Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), Lecce, Italy
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- University of Salento, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies (DiSTeBA), Lecce, Italy
- Italian National Research Council (CNR), Institute for Research on Terrestrial Ecosystems (IRET), Lecce, Italy
- National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, 90133, Italy
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Dong Y, Li Y, Ge M, Takatsu T, Wang Z, Zhang X, Ding D, Xu Q. Distinct gut microbial communities and functional predictions in divergent ophiuroid species: host differentiation, ecological niches, and adaptation to cold-water habitats. Microbiol Spectr 2023; 11:e0207323. [PMID: 37889056 PMCID: PMC10715168 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.02073-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2023] [Accepted: 09/20/2023] [Indexed: 10/28/2023] Open
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IMPORTANCE Gastrointestinal microorganisms are critical to the survival and adaptation of hosts, and there are few studies on the differences and functions of gastrointestinal microbes in widely distributed species. This study investigated the gut microbes of two ophiuroid species (Ophiura sarsii and its subspecies O. sarsii vadicola) in cold-water habitats of the Northern Pacific Ocean. The results showed that a combination of host and environmental factors shapes the intestinal microbiota of ophiuroids. There was a high similarity in microbial communities between the two groups living in different regions, which may be related to their similar ecological niches. These microorganisms played a vital role in the ecological success of ophiuroids as the foundation for their adaptation to cold-water environments. This study revealed the complex relationship between hosts and their gut microbes, providing insights into the role they play in the adaptation and survival of marine species.
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- Yue Dong
- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
- Key Laboratory of Marine Eco-Environmental Science and Technology, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Eco-Environmental Science and Technology, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, China
- Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR, China
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- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
- Key Laboratory of Marine Eco-Environmental Science and Technology, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, China
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- Faculty of Fisheries Sciences, Hokkaido University, Hakodate, Japan
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Eco-Environmental Science and Technology, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Eco-Environmental Science and Technology, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Eco-Environmental Science and Technology, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Eco-Environmental Science and Technology, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, China
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Zhang Y, Liu H, Huang N, Peng X, Jing H. Geographical distribution and driving force of micro-eukaryotes in the seamount sediments along the island arc of the Yap and Mariana trenches. Microbiol Spectr 2023; 11:e0206923. [PMID: 37943079 PMCID: PMC10714776 DOI: 10.1128/spectrum.02069-23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2023] [Accepted: 09/26/2023] [Indexed: 11/10/2023] Open
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IMPORTANCE A distinct distribution pattern was shaped by a deterministic process. Enhanced vertical connectivity expanded the previous understanding of seamount effects. Parasitism and predation were prevalent in the seamounts.
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- Yue Zhang
- CAS Key Lab for Experimental Study under Deep-sea Extreme Conditions, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China
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- Department of Ocean Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Zhuhai, China
- HKUST-CAS Sanya Joint Laboratory of Marine Science Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China
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- CAS Key Lab for Experimental Study under Deep-sea Extreme Conditions, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China
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- CAS Key Lab for Experimental Study under Deep-sea Extreme Conditions, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China
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- CAS Key Lab for Experimental Study under Deep-sea Extreme Conditions, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Zhuhai, China
- HKUST-CAS Sanya Joint Laboratory of Marine Science Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China
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Lee YH, Abueg L, Kim JK, Kim YW, Fedrigo O, Balacco J, Formenti G, Howe K, Tracey A, Wood J, Thibaud-Nissen F, Nam BH, No ES, Kim HR, Lee C, Jarvis ED, Kim H. Chromosome-level genome assembly of chub mackerel (Scomber japonicus) from the Indo- Pacific Ocean. Sci Data 2023; 10:880. [PMID: 38066002 PMCID: PMC10709322 DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02782-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2023] [Accepted: 11/23/2023] [Indexed: 12/18/2023] Open
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Chub mackerels (Scomber japonicus) are a migratory marine fish widely distributed in the Indo-Pacific Ocean. They are globally consumed for their high Omega-3 content, but their population is declining due to global warming. Here, we generated the first chromosome-level genome assembly of chub mackerel (fScoJap1) using the Vertebrate Genomes Project assembly pipeline with PacBio HiFi genomic sequencing and Arima Hi-C chromosome contact data. The final assembly is 828.68 Mb with 24 chromosomes, nearly all containing telomeric repeats at their ends. We annotated 31,656 genes and discovered that approximately 2.19% of the genome contained DNA transposon elements repressed within duplicated genes. Analyzing 5-methylcytosine (5mC) modifications using HiFi reads, we observed open/close chromatin patterns at gene promoters, including the FADS2 gene involved in Omega-3 production. This chromosome-level reference genome provides unprecedented opportunities for advancing our knowledge of chub mackerels in biology, industry, and conservation.
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- Young Ho Lee
- Interdisciplinary Program in Bioinformatics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Vertebrate Genome Laboratory, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Marine Biology, Pukyong National University, Busan, 48513, Republic of Korea
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- Interdisciplinary Program in Bioinformatics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Vertebrate Genome Laboratory, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, USA
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- Vertebrate Genome Laboratory, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, USA
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- Vertebrate Genome Laboratory, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, USA
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- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK
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- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK
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- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Biotechnology Research Division, National Institute of Fisheries Science, Haean-ro 216, Gijang-eup, Gijang-gun, Busan, 46083, Korea
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- Biotechnology Research Division, National Institute of Fisheries Science, Haean-ro 216, Gijang-eup, Gijang-gun, Busan, 46083, Korea
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- Plant Systems Engineering Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Daejeon, Korea
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- Interdisciplinary Program in Bioinformatics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
- Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language, The Rockefeller University, New York City, NY, 10065, USA.
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- Vertebrate Genome Laboratory, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York, USA.
- Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language, The Rockefeller University, New York City, NY, 10065, USA.
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA.
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- Interdisciplinary Program in Bioinformatics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
- eGnome inc., C-1008, H Businesspark, 26, Beobwon-ro 9-gil, Songpa-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
- Department of Agricultural Biotechnology and Research Institute for Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
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Hande V, Orita M, Matsunaga H, Kashiwazaki Y, Xiao X, Schneider T, Lochard J, Taira Y, Takamura N. Thoughts, perceptions and concerns of coastal residents regarding the discharge of tritium-containing treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant into the Pacific Ocean. BMC Public Health 2023; 23:2436. [PMID: 38057746 PMCID: PMC10701930 DOI: 10.1186/s12889-023-17349-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2023] [Accepted: 11/27/2023] [Indexed: 12/08/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND As a part of the decontamination process after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident of 2011, 1.32 million tonnes of tritium-containing water will be discharged from the power plant into the Pacific Ocean. Although radiobiological impacts of the treated water discharge on the public and the environment were reported to be minimal, Tomioka and Okuma locals expressed unease regarding the long-term recovery of their towns, which are economically dependent on the agricultural, fishery, and tourism sectors. This study presents thoughts, perceptions and concerns of Tomioka and Okuma locals regarding the discharge of FDNPP-treated water containing tritium into the Pacific Ocean to facilitate a more inclusive decision-making process that respects local stakeholder interests. METHODS Conducted from November to December 2022, surveys were mailed to current residents and evacuees aged 20 years or older registered with the town councils. RESULTS Out of 1268 included responses, 71.5% were from those > 65 years. 65.6% were unemployed, 76.2% routinely visited hospitals, and 85.5% did not live with children. 61% did not want to return to Okuma/Tomioka. Anxiety about radiation-related health effects (38.7%), consuming food produced in Okuma/Tomioka (48.0%) and genetic effects (45.3%) were low. >50% reported poor physical and mental health. 40% were acceptive, 31.4% were unsure, and 29.7% objected to the discharge plans. Multinomial regression analysis revealed that, compared to acceptive responders, those who objected were more likely to be female, unemployed, and have anxiety about radiation-related genetic effects and poor mental health. Unsure responders were similarly more likely to be female, anxious about radiation-related genetic effects and have poor mental health. CONCLUSION The poor mental health of the locals, connected to high levels of risk perception and anxiety about the loss of economic opportunities related to the discharge plans, must be addressed. The 30-year discharge process could handicap local industries and hamper post-disaster socioeconomic recovery due to the circulation of false rumours among consumers. These results highlight the need to actively involve residents in the towns' recovery process to address local concerns. The focus should be on the judicious combination of transparent science with the human aspect of recovery and narratives highlighting dialogues between local stakeholders and experts to enable the locals and the general public to make informed decisions about their protection and future.
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- Varsha Hande
- Department of Global Health, Medicine and Welfare, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, 852-8523, Japan
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- Department of Global Health, Medicine and Welfare, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, 852-8523, Japan.
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- Department of Global Health, Medicine and Welfare, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, 852-8523, Japan
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- Department of Global Health, Medicine and Welfare, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, 852-8523, Japan
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- Department of Global Health, Medicine and Welfare, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, 852-8523, Japan
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- Nuclear Protection Evaluation Centre (CEPN), Fontenay-aux-Roses, France
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- Department of Health Risk Control, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
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- Department of Global Health, Medicine and Welfare, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, 852-8523, Japan
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- Department of Global Health, Medicine and Welfare, Atomic Bomb Disease Institute, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, 852-8523, Japan
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Tsumune D, Bryan FO, Lindsay K, Misumi K, Tsubono T, Aoyama M. Simulated inventory and distribution of 137Cs released from multiple sources in the global ocean. Mar Pollut Bull 2023; 197:115663. [PMID: 37897967 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2023] [Revised: 10/05/2023] [Accepted: 10/10/2023] [Indexed: 10/30/2023]
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Radioactive cesium (137Cs) is distributed in the world's oceans as a result of global fallout from atmospheric nuclear weapons tests, releases from fuel reprocessing plants, and inputs from nuclear power plant accident. In order to detect future radionuclide contamination, it is necessary to establish a baseline global distribution of radionuclides such as 137Cs and to understand the ocean transport processes that lead to that distribution. In order to aid in the interpretation of the observed database, we have conducted a suite of simulations of the distribution of 137Cs using a global ocean general circulation model (OGCM). Simulated 137Cs radioactivity concentrations agree well with observations, and the results were used to estimate the changes in inventories for each ocean basin. 137Cs activity concentration from atmospheric nuclear weapons tests are expected to be detectable in the world ocean until at least 2030.
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- Daisuke Tsumune
- Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, 1646 Abiko, Abiko, Chiba 270-1194, Japan; University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan.
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307, USA
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- National Center for Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307, USA
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- Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, 1646 Abiko, Abiko, Chiba 270-1194, Japan
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- Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, 1646 Abiko, Abiko, Chiba 270-1194, Japan
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- University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan
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Kar C, Mariyambi PC, Raghavan R, Sureshkumar S. Mitochondrial phylogeny of fusilier fishes (family Caesionidae) from the Laccadive archipelago reveals a new species and two new records from the Central Indian Ocean. J Fish Biol 2023; 103:1445-1451. [PMID: 37667092 DOI: 10.1111/jfb.15553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2023] [Revised: 08/30/2023] [Accepted: 08/31/2023] [Indexed: 09/06/2023]
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Fusiliers of the family Caesionidae comprise a group of Indo-Pacific reef fishes important in the live bait and artisanal fisheries in many parts of its range, particularly in the Indian Ocean region. Using newly generated mitochondrial COI sequences of 10 species of caesionid fishes from the Laccadive archipelago, we carried out a molecular phylogenetic analysis, which has helped improve our understanding of the diversity, distribution, and systematics of this poorly known group of fishes. The two speciose genera within Caesionidae, Caesio and Pterocaesio, were revealed to be paraphyletic, and as a result, four names earlier considered as subgenera within Caesionidae (Flavicaesio, Odontonectes, Pisinnicaesio, and Squamosicaesio) were elevated to the status of distinct genera. We also discovered the presence of a new lineage in the Central Indian Ocean, sister to Caesio caerulaurea and Caesio xanthalytos, but distinct from both in several morphological characters and a genetic distance of between 2% and 3% in the mitochondrial COI gene. We describe this lineage as Caesio idreesi, a new species, with a distribution spanning the Laccadive Sea and the Bay of Bengal. Our genetic data also helped confirm the first confirmed records of two species, Pisinnicaesio digramma and Squamosicaesio randalli, from the Central Indian Ocean, and a new distribution record for C. xanthalytos in the Laccadive Sea. Combined, these results have helped bridge key biodiversity knowledge gaps of the family Caesionidae and form an excellent baseline for further investigations on their taxonomy, systematics, and life history.
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- Chinmay Kar
- Department of Marine Biology, Biodiversity Laboratory, Faculty of Ocean Science and Technology, Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS), Kochi, India
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- Department of Marine Biology, Biodiversity Laboratory, Faculty of Ocean Science and Technology, Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS), Kochi, India
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- Department of Fisheries Resource Management, Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS), Kochi, India
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- Department of Marine Biology, Biodiversity Laboratory, Faculty of Ocean Science and Technology, Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS), Kochi, India
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Rashid A, Fang C, Qin D, Zhang Y, Nkinahamira F, Bo J, Sun Q. Spatiotemporal profile and ecological impacts of major and trace elements in surface sediments of marginal seas of the Arctic and Northern Pacific Oceans. Mar Pollut Bull 2023; 197:115702. [PMID: 37918145 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2023.115702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2023] [Revised: 10/17/2023] [Accepted: 10/19/2023] [Indexed: 11/04/2023]
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The status and ecological impacts of sedimentary elements of the marginal seas of Arctic and Northern Pacific Oceans was investigated during 2016 to 2018 by using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Industrial (0.006 mg kg-1-64.6 g kg-1), precious (0.003-43.8 mg kg-1), rare earth (0.006-112.9 mg kg-1), and heavy metal (0.009-398.9 mg kg-1) elements showed spatial variation, and temporal uniformity. The results indicated ΣREEs and light REEs enrichment compared to chondrite and heavy REEs, respectively, while nonsignificant positive and negative δCe and δEu anomalies existed, respectively. High contamination and extreme enrichment of priority control, industrial (As, Mo, Re, Sb), precious (Au, Ir, Pd, Pt, and Ru) and RE elements indicated potential moderate to high ecological and biological risks. The study highlighted the ecological importance and fragile nature of these ecosystems and calls for an urgent action to ensure sustainability of these ecosystems.
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- Azhar Rashid
- CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Fujian Key Laboratory of Watershed Ecology, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China; Department of Environmental Sciences, The University of Haripur, Haripur 22620, Pakistan
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- MNR Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Conservation and Restoration, Fujian Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Conservation and Restoration, Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen 361005, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Fujian Key Laboratory of Watershed Ecology, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China.
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- MNR Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Conservation and Restoration, Fujian Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Conservation and Restoration, Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen 361005, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Fujian Key Laboratory of Watershed Ecology, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China
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- MNR Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Conservation and Restoration, Fujian Key Laboratory of Marine Ecological Conservation and Restoration, Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen 361005, China.
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, Fujian Key Laboratory of Watershed Ecology, Institute of Urban Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiamen 361021, China
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Ji S, Tian Y, Li J, Xu G, Zhang Y, Chen S, Chen Y, Tang X. Complete genome sequence of Bacillus cereus Z4, a biocontrol agent against tobacco black shank, isolated from the Western Pacific Ocean. Mar Genomics 2023; 72:101071. [PMID: 38008533 DOI: 10.1016/j.margen.2023.101071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2023] [Revised: 10/07/2023] [Accepted: 10/08/2023] [Indexed: 11/28/2023]
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Bacillus species have been considered as promising biological control agents due to their excellent antimicrobial ability. Bacillus cereus strain Z4 was isolated from 2000 m deep sea sediments of the Western Pacific Ocean, which possesses significant antifungal activity against Phytophthora nicotianae, the pathogenic fungus of tobacco black shank disease. To reveal the underlying antifungal genetic mechanisms, here, we report the complete genomic sequence of the strain Z4. The genome has one circular chromosome of 5,664,309 bp with a G + C content of 35.31%, 109 tRNAs, and 43 rRNAs. Genomic analysis identified 10 gene clusters related to the biosynthesis of biocontrol active compounds, including bacillibactin, petrobactin, fengycin, and molybdenum cofactor. Meanwhile, 6 gene clusters were responsible for the biosynthesis of metabolites with unknown functions. Strain Z4 also contains a large number of genes encoding carbohydrate-active enzymes and secreted proteins, respectively. The whole genomic analysis of Bacillus cereus Z4 may provide a valuable reference for elucidating its biocontrol mechanism against tobacco black shank.
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- Shunhua Ji
- Technology Center, China Tobacco Fujian Industrial Co., Ltd., Xiamen 361021, Fujian, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China
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- Technology Center, China Tobacco Fujian Industrial Co., Ltd., Xiamen 361021, Fujian, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China
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- Technology Center, China Tobacco Fujian Industrial Co., Ltd., Xiamen 361021, Fujian, China
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- Technology Center, China Tobacco Fujian Industrial Co., Ltd., Xiamen 361021, Fujian, China
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- Technology Center, China Tobacco Fujian Industrial Co., Ltd., Xiamen 361021, Fujian, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Genetic Resources, Third Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China.
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Fuchsman CA, Hays MD. Increased cyanophage infection at the bottom of the euphotic zone, especially in the fall. Environ Microbiol 2023; 25:3349-3363. [PMID: 37861083 DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.16525] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2023] [Accepted: 10/03/2023] [Indexed: 10/21/2023]
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Picocyanobacteria contribute greatly to offshore primary production with cells extending through the deep euphotic zone. Literature indicates high viral infection of cyanobacteria in ocean transition zones. We postulate that the bottom of the euphotic zone is a transition zone, where communities transition from phototrophic to aphotic processes. We use single-copy core genes to examine cyanophage to cyanobacteria ratios in cellular metagenomes in the subtropical North Atlantic and Pacific. Cyanophage to cyanobacteria terL/rpoB ratios generally increase to >10 in the deep euphotic zone. As light levels decrease in the fall, Prochlorococcus in the deep euphotic zone experience reduced light levels. We find clear differences between spring (Geotraces GA02) and fall (GA03) in the North Atlantic, with terL/rpoB ratios increasing to >40 in the fall. When examining 23 months of the North Pacific Hawaii Ocean Timeseries, the depth of elevated cyanophage to cyanobacteria ratios in cellular metagenomes negatively correlated with surface photosynthetic radiation (PAR), particularly with the change in PAR, which reflected the season. In fall, all picocyanobacteria ecotypes were found at depths enriched with viruses, while in summer, only low light ecotypes were affected. Thus, we find high cyanophage infection both in the deep euphotic zone and during seasonal transitions.
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- Clara A Fuchsman
- Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, Maryland, USA
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- Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, Maryland, USA
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Chamba G, Rissanen M, Barthelmeß T, Saiz-Lopez A, Rose C, Iyer S, Saint-Macary A, Rocco M, Safi K, Deppeler S, Barr N, Harvey M, Engel A, Dunne E, Law CS, Sellegri K. Evidence of nitrate-based nighttime atmospheric nucleation driven by marine microorganisms in the South Pacific. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2308696120. [PMID: 37991941 PMCID: PMC10691324 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2308696120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2023] [Accepted: 10/04/2023] [Indexed: 11/24/2023] Open
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Our understanding of ocean-cloud interactions and their effect on climate lacks insight into a key pathway: do biogenic marine emissions form new particles in the open ocean atmosphere? Using measurements collected in ship-borne air-sea interface tanks deployed in the Southwestern Pacific Ocean, we identified new particle formation (NPF) during nighttime that was related to plankton community composition. We show that nitrate ions are the only species for which abundance could support NPF rates in our semicontrolled experiments. Nitrate ions also prevailed in the natural pristine marine atmosphere and were elevated under higher sub-10 nm particle concentrations. We hypothesize that these nucleation events were fueled by complex, short-term biogeochemical cycling involving the microbial loop. These findings suggest a new perspective with a previously unidentified role of nitrate of marine biogeochemical origin in aerosol nucleation.
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- Guillaume Chamba
- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, Clermont-FerrandF-63000, France
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- Aerosol Physics Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere33720, Finland
- Chemistry Department, Molecular Research Unit, University of Helsinki, Helsinki00014, Finland
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- Research Center for Marine Geosciences, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel24105, Germany
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- Department of Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate, Institute of Physical Chemistry Blas Cabrera, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid28006, Spain
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, Clermont-FerrandF-63000, France
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- Aerosol Physics Laboratory, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere33720, Finland
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington6021, New Zealand
- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin9016, New Zealand
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, Clermont-FerrandF-63000, France
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Hamilton3216, New Zealand
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington6021, New Zealand
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington6021, New Zealand
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington6021, New Zealand
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- Research Center for Marine Geosciences, Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel24105, Germany
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- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Environment, AspendaleVIC3195, Australia
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- National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington6021, New Zealand
- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin9016, New Zealand
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- Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Laboratoire de Météorologie Physique, Clermont-FerrandF-63000, France
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Jensen AJ, Kelly RP, Satterthwaite WH, Ward EJ, Moran P, Shelton AO. Modeling ocean distributions and abundances of natural- and hatchery-origin Chinook salmon stocks with integrated genetic and tagging data. PeerJ 2023; 11:e16487. [PMID: 38047019 PMCID: PMC10691356 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.16487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2023] [Accepted: 10/27/2023] [Indexed: 12/05/2023] Open
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Background Considerable resources are spent to track fish movement in marine environments, often with the intent of estimating behavior, distribution, and abundance. Resulting data from these monitoring efforts, including tagging studies and genetic sampling, often can be siloed. For Pacific salmon in the Northeast Pacific Ocean, predominant data sources for fish monitoring are coded wire tags (CWTs) and genetic stock identification (GSI). Despite their complementary strengths and weaknesses in coverage and information content, the two data streams rarely have been integrated to inform Pacific salmon biology and management. Joint, or integrated, models can combine and contextualize multiple data sources in a single statistical framework to produce more robust estimates of fish populations. Methods We introduce and fit a comprehensive joint model that integrates data from CWT recoveries and GSI sampling to inform the marine life history of Chinook salmon stocks at spatial and temporal scales relevant to ongoing fisheries management efforts. In a departure from similar models based primarily on CWT recoveries, modeled stocks in the new framework encompass both hatchery- and natural-origin fish. We specifically model the spatial distribution and marine abundance of four distinct stocks with spawning locations in California and southern Oregon, one of which is listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Results Using the joint model, we generated the most comprehensive estimates of marine distribution to date for all modeled Chinook salmon stocks, including historically data poor and low abundance stocks. Estimated marine distributions from the joint model were broadly similar to estimates from a simpler, CWT-only model but did suggest some differences in distribution in select seasons. Model output also included novel stock-, year-, and season-specific estimates of marine abundance. We observed and partially addressed several challenges in model convergence with the use of supplemental data sources and model constraints; similar difficulties are not unexpected with integrated modeling. We identify several options for improved data collection that could address issues in convergence and increase confidence in model estimates of abundance. We expect these model advances and results provide management-relevant biological insights, with the potential to inform future mixed-stock fisheries management efforts, as well as a foundation for more expansive and comprehensive analyses to follow.
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- Alexander J. Jensen
- School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America
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- School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America
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- Fisheries Ecology Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Santa Cruz, CA, United States of America
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- Conservation Biology Division, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Seattle, WA, United States of America
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- Conservation Biology Division, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Seattle, WA, United States of America
| | - Andrew Olaf Shelton
- Conservation Biology Division, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Seattle, WA, United States of America
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