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Yu F, Luo W, Xie W, Li Y, Liu Y, Ye X, Peng T, Wang H, Huang T, Hu Z. The effects of long-term hexabromocyclododecanes contamination on microbial communities in the microcosms. CHEMOSPHERE 2023; 325:138412. [PMID: 36925001 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.138412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2022] [Revised: 01/21/2023] [Accepted: 03/13/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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The adaptation of microbial community to the long-term contamination of hexabromocyclododecanes (HBCDs) has not been well studied. Our previous study found that the HBCDs contamination in the microcosms constructed of sediments from two different mangrove forests in 8 months resulted in serious acidification (pH2-3). This study reanalyzed previous sequencing data and compared them with data after 20 months to investigate the adaptive properties of microbial communities in the stress of HBCDs and acidification. It hypothesized that the reassembly was based on the fitness of taxa. The results indicated that eukaryotes and fungi might have better adaptive capacity to these deteriorated habitats. Eukaryotic taxa Eufallia and Syncystis, and fungal taxa Wickerhamomyces were only detected after 20 months of contamination. Moreover, eukaryotic taxa Caloneis and Nitzschia, and fungal taxa Talaromyces were dominant in most of microbial communities (14.467-95.941%). The functional compositions were sediment-dependent and more divergent than community reassemblies. Network and co-occurrence analysis suggested that acidophiles such as Acidisoma and Acidiphilium were gaining more positive relations in the long-term stress. The acidophilic taxa and genes involved in resistance to the acidification and toxicity of HBCDs were enriched, for example, bacteria Acidisoma and Acidiphilium, archaea Thermogymnomonas, and eukaryotes Nitzschia, and genes kdpC, odc1, polA, gst, and sod-2. These genes involved in oxidative stress response, energy metabolism, DNA damage repair, potassium transportation, and decarboxylation. It suggested that the microbial communities might cope with the stress from HBCDs and acidification via multiple pathways. The present research shed light on the evolution of microbial communities under the long-term stress of HBCDs contamination and acidification.
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Affiliation(s)
- Fei Yu
- Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong Province, China
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- Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong Province, China
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- Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong Province, China
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- Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong Province, China
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- Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong Province, China
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- Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong Province, China
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- Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong Province, China
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- Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong Province, China
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- Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong Province, China.
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- Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong Province, China; Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China.
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Jha V, Bombaywala S, Purohit H, Dafale NA. Differential colonization and functioning of microbial community in response to phosphate levels. JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2022; 321:115856. [PMID: 35985261 DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115856] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2022] [Revised: 07/19/2022] [Accepted: 07/21/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Microbes play a major role in phosphate cycling and regulate its availability in various environments. The metagenomic study highlights the microbial community divergence and interplay of phosphate metabolism functional genes in response to phosphate rich (100 mgL-1), limiting (25 mgL-1), and stressed (5 mgL-1) conditions at lab-scale bioreactor. Total five core phyla were found responsive toward different phosphate (Pi) levels. However, major variations were observed in Proteobacteria and Actinobacteria with 33-81% and 5-56% relative abundance, respectively. Canonical correspondence analysis reflects the colonization of Sinorhizobium (0.8-4%), Mesorhizobium (1-4%), Rhizobium (0.5-3%) in rich condition whereas, Pseudomonas (1-2%), Rhodococcus (0.2-2%), Flavobacterium (0.2-1%) and Streptomyces (0.3-4%) colonized in limiting and stress condition. The functional profiling demonstrates that Pi limiting and stress condition subjected biomass were characterized by abundant PQQ-Glucose dehydrogenase, alkaline phosphatase, 5'-nucleotidase, and phospholipases C genes. The finding implies that the major abundant genera belonging to phosphate solubilization enriched in limiting/stressed conditions decide the functional turnover by modulating the metabolic flexibility for Pi cycling. The study gives a better insight into intrinsic ecological responsiveness mediated by microbial communities in different Pi conditions that would help to design the microbiome according to the soil phosphate condition. Furthermore, this information assists in sustainably maintaining the ecological balance by omitting excessive chemical fertilizers and eutrophication.
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- Varsha Jha
- Environmental Biotechnology and Genomics Division, CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nehru Marg, Nagpur, 440020, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, 201002, India
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- Environmental Biotechnology and Genomics Division, CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nehru Marg, Nagpur, 440020, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, 201002, India
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- Environmental Biotechnology and Genomics Division, CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nehru Marg, Nagpur, 440020, India
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- Environmental Biotechnology and Genomics Division, CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Nehru Marg, Nagpur, 440020, India; Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, 201002, India.
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Yu F, Luo W, Xie W, Li Y, Meng S, Kan J, Ye X, Peng T, Wang H, Huang T, Hu Z. Community reassemblies of eukaryotes, prokaryotes, and viruses in the hexabromocyclododecanes-contaminated microcosms. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2022; 436:129159. [PMID: 35643009 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.129159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2022] [Revised: 04/28/2022] [Accepted: 05/12/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The microbial community in seriously contaminated environment were not well known. This research investigated the community reassemblies in microcosms made of two distinct mangrove sediments amended with high levels of hexabromocyclododecanes (HBCDs). After eight months of contamination, the transformation of HBCDs yielded various lower brominated products and resulted in acidification (pH ~2). Therefore, the degraders and dehalogenase homologous genes involved in transformation of HBCDs only presented in low abundance to avoid further deterioration of the habitats. Moreover, in these deteriorated habitats, 1344 bacterial, 969 archaeal, 599 eukaryotic (excluded fungi), 187 fungal OTUs, and 10 viral genera, were reduced compared with controls. Specifically, in two groups of microcosms, Zetaproteobacteria, Deinococcus-Thermus, Spirochaetes, Bacteroidetes, Euryarchaeota, and Ascomycota, were positively responding taxa to HBCDs. Caloneis (Bacillariophyta) and Ascomycota turned to the dominant eukaryotic and fungal taxa. Most of predominant taxa were related to the contamination of brominated flame retardants (BFRs). Microbial communities were reassembled in divergent and sediment-dependent manner. The long-term contamination of HBCDs leaded to the change of relations between many taxa, included some of the environmental viruses and their known hosts. This research highlight the importance of monitoring the ecological effects around plants producing or processing halogenated compounds.
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- Fei Yu
- Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Guangdong Province, PR China
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- Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Guangdong Province, PR China
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- Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Guangdong Province, PR China
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- Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Guangdong Province, PR China
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- Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Guangdong Province, PR China
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- Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Guangdong Province, PR China
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- Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Guangdong Province, PR China
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- Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Guangdong Province, PR China
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- Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Guangdong Province, PR China
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- Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Guangdong Province, PR China
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- Department of Biology, College of Science, Shantou University, Guangdong Province, PR China; Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, Guangdong, PR China.
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Soil microbes play a central role in ecosystem element cycling. Yet a central question in microbial ecology remains unanswered: to what extent does the taxonomic composition of soil microbial communities mediate biogeochemical process rates? In this quantitative review, we explore the mechanisms that lead to variation in the strength of microbial community structure-function relationships over space and time. To evaluate these mechanisms, we conduct a meta-analysis of studies that have monitored the decomposition of sterilized plant litter inoculated with different microbial assemblages. We find that the influence of microbial community composition on litter decay is pervasive and strong, rivalling in magnitude the influence of litter chemistry on decomposition. However, no single environmental or experimental attribute was correlated with variation in the inoculum effect. These results emphasize the need to better understand ecological dynamics within microbial communities, particularly emergent features such as cross-feeding networks, to improve predictions of soil biogeochemical function.
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Hutchinson MI, Bell TAS, Gallegos-Graves LV, Dunbar J, Albright M. Merging Fungal and Bacterial Community Profiles via an Internal Control. MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 2021; 82:484-497. [PMID: 33410932 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-020-01638-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2020] [Accepted: 11/03/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Integrated measurements of fungi and bacteria are critical to understand how interactions between these taxa drive key processes in ecosystems ranging from soils to animal guts. High-throughput amplicon sequencing is commonly used to census microbiomes, but the genetic markers targeted for fungi and bacteria (typically ribosomal regions) are domain-specific so profiling must be performed separately, obscuring relationships between these groups. To solve this problem, we developed a spike-in method with an internal control (IC) construct containing primer sites commonly used for bacterial and fungal taxonomic profiling. The internal control offers several advantages: estimation of absolute abundances, estimation of fungal to bacterial ratios (F:B), integration of bacterial and fungal profiles for holistic community analysis, and lower costs compared to other quantitation methods. To validate the IC as a scaling method, we compared IC-derived measures of F:B to measures from quantitative PCR (qPCR) using a commercial mock community (the ZymoBiomic Microbial Community DNA Standard II, containing two fungi and eight bacteria) and complex environmental samples. For both the mock community and the environmental samples, the IC produced F:B values that were statistically consistent with qPCR. Merging the environmental fungal and bacterial profiles based on the IC-derived F:B values revealed new relationships among samples in terms of community similarity. This IC method is the first spike-in method to employ a single construct for cross-domain amplicon sequencing, offering more reliable measurements.
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- Miriam I Hutchinson
- Biosciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mailstop M888, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA
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- Biosciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mailstop M888, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA
- Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
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- Biosciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mailstop M888, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA
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- Biosciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mailstop M888, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA.
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Machine Learning Approach Reveals the Assembly of Activated Sludge Microbiome with Different Carbon Sources during Microcosm Startup. Microorganisms 2021; 9:microorganisms9071387. [PMID: 34202381 PMCID: PMC8304691 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms9071387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2021] [Revised: 06/14/2021] [Accepted: 06/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Activated sludge (AS) microcosm experiments usually begin with inoculating a bioreactor with an AS mixed culture. During the bioreactor startup, AS communities undergo, to some extent, a distortion in their characteristics (e.g., loss of diversity). This work aimed to provide a predictive understanding of the dynamic changes in the community structure and diversity occurring during aerobic AS microcosm startups. AS microcosms were developed using three frequently used carbon sources: acetate (A), glucose (G), and starch (S), respectively. A mathematical modeling approach quantitatively determined that 1.7–2.4 times the solid retention time (SRT) was minimally required for the microcosm startups, during which substantial divergences in the community biomass and diversity (33–45% reduction in species richness and diversity) were observed. A machine learning modeling application using AS microbiome data could successfully (>95% accuracy) predict the assembly pattern of aerobic AS microcosm communities responsive to each carbon source. A feature importance analysis pinpointed specific taxa that were highly indicative of a microcosm feed source (A, G, or S) and significantly contributed for the ML-based predictive classification. The results of this study have important implications on the interpretation and validity of microcosm experiments using AS.
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Ecological drivers switch from bottom-up to top-down during model microbial community successions. THE ISME JOURNAL 2021; 15:1085-1097. [PMID: 33230267 PMCID: PMC8115227 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-020-00833-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2020] [Revised: 11/02/2020] [Accepted: 11/05/2020] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Bottom-up selection has an important role in microbial community assembly but is unable to account for all observed variance. Other processes like top-down selection (e.g., predation) may be partially responsible for the unexplained variance. However, top-down processes and their interaction with bottom-up selective pressures often remain unexplored. We utilised an in situ marine biofilm model system to test the effects of bottom-up (i.e., substrate properties) and top-down (i.e., large predator exclusion via 100 µm mesh) selective pressures on community assembly over time (56 days). Prokaryotic and eukaryotic community compositions were monitored using 16 S and 18 S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. Higher compositional variance was explained by growth substrate in early successional stages, but as biofilms mature, top-down predation becomes progressively more important. Wooden substrates promoted heterotrophic growth, whereas inert substrates' (i.e., plastic, glass, tile) lack of degradable material selected for autotrophs. Early wood communities contained more mixotrophs and heterotrophs (e.g., the total abundance of Proteobacteria and Euglenozoa was 34% and 41% greater within wood compared to inert substrates). Inert substrates instead showed twice the autotrophic abundance (e.g., cyanobacteria and ochrophyta made up 37% and 10% more of the total abundance within inert substrates than in wood). Late native (non-enclosed) communities were mostly dominated by autotrophs across all substrates, whereas high heterotrophic abundance characterised enclosed communities. Late communities were primarily under top-down control, where large predators successively pruned heterotrophs. Integrating a top-down control increased explainable variance by 7-52%, leading to increased understanding of the underlying ecological processes guiding multitrophic community assembly and successional dynamics.
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Bioremediation of hydrocarbon-contaminated soil from Carlini Station, Antarctica: effectiveness of different nutrient sources as biostimulation agents. Polar Biol 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s00300-020-02787-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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