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Zhou M, Hou Y, Jia R, Li B, Zhu J. Effects of Bellamya purificata Cultivation at Different Stocking Densities on the Dynamics and Assembly of Bacterial Communities in Sediment. Biomolecules 2023; 13:biom13020254. [PMID: 36830624 PMCID: PMC9953186 DOI: 10.3390/biom13020254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/01/2022] [Revised: 01/15/2023] [Accepted: 01/23/2023] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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To optimize the integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) model, improve the efficiency of resource utilization, and reduce environmental pollution, Bellamya purificata, as a potential bioremediation species, was studied to investigate the effect of B. purificata culture on the dynamics and assembly of bacterial communities in sediment. Four experimental groups were established at four different densities: 0, 234.38, 468.75, and 937.5 g/m2 (represented as CON, LD, MD, and HD, respectively). Each group was with three replicates. The 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) high-throughput sequencing was used to evaluate the composition, function, and assembly of bacterial communities in sediment. B. purificata cultivation significantly altered the composition and function of the bacterial communities in sediment; at high stocking density, it significantly decreased anaerobic and increased aerobic organic matter decomposition, whereas at low stocking density, it decreased the number of bacteria involved in sulfate reduction and inhibited the denitrification process. B. purificata decreased direct competition and promoted collaboration or niche sharing in bacterial communities, especially at the high stocking density. Moreover, B. purificata cultivation resulted in greater changes in the environmental factors. Variations in dissolved oxygen, pH, total nitrogen, nitrate, and nitrite levels were closely related to the altered composition and function of the bacterial communities. Stochastic processes dominated the bacterial community assembly in the sediment and B. purificata cultivation had limited impacts on the bacterial community assembly. The study provided a reference for the dynamics and assembly of bacterial communities in sediment with different densities of B. purificata cultivation and we hope that the findings will provide a theoretical reference for the optimization of IMTA and improve management strategies for B. purificata polyculture.
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- Mengmeng Zhou
- College of Fisheries and Life Science, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China
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- Key Laboratory of Integrated Rice-Fish Farming Ecology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuxi 214081, China
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- Key Laboratory of Integrated Rice-Fish Farming Ecology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuxi 214081, China
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- Key Laboratory of Integrated Rice-Fish Farming Ecology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuxi 214081, China
- Correspondence: (B.L.); (J.Z.); Tel.: +86-510-85550535 (B.L.); +86-510-85550414 (J.Z.)
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- College of Fisheries and Life Science, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai 201306, China
- Key Laboratory of Integrated Rice-Fish Farming Ecology, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuxi 214081, China
- Correspondence: (B.L.); (J.Z.); Tel.: +86-510-85550535 (B.L.); +86-510-85550414 (J.Z.)
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Zheng F, Zhang T, Yin S, Qin G, Chen J, Zhang J, Zhao D, Leng X, An S, Xia L. Comparison and interpretation of freshwater bacterial structure and interactions with organic to nutrient imbalances in restored wetlands. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:946537. [PMID: 36212857 PMCID: PMC9533089 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.946537] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2022] [Accepted: 08/30/2022] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Chemical oxygen demand to nitrogen (COD/N) and nitrogen to phosphorus (N/P) ratios have distinct effects on bacterial community structure and interactions. However, how organic to nutrient imbalances affect the structure of freshwater bacterial assemblages in restored wetlands remains poorly understood. Here, the composition and dominant taxa of bacterial assemblages in four wetlands [low COD/N and high N/P (LH), low COD/N and low N/P (LL), high COD/N and high N/P (HH), and high COD/N and low N/P (HL)] were investigated. A total of 7,709 operational taxonomic units were identified by high throughput sequencing, and Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria, and Cyanobacteria were the most abundant phyla in the restored wetlands. High COD/N significantly increased bacterial diversity and was negatively correlated with N/P (R 2 = 0.128; p = 0.039), and the observed richness (Sobs) indices ranged from 860.77 to 1314.66. The corresponding Chao1 and phylogenetic diversity (PD) values ranged from 1533.42 to 2524.56 and 127.95 to 184.63. Bacterial beta diversity was negatively related to COD/N (R 2 = 0.258; p < 0.001). The distribution of bacterial assemblages was mostly driven by variations in ammonia nitrogen (NH4 +-N, p < 0.01) and electrical conductivity (EC, p < 0.01), which collectively explained more than 80% of the variation in bacterial assemblages. However, the dominant taxa Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, Cyanobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Verrucomicrobia, Planctomycetes, Chloroflexi, and Deinococcus-Thermus were obviously affected by variation in COD/N and N/P (p < 0.05). The highest node and edge numbers and average degree were observed in the LH group. The co-occurrence networkindicated that LH promoted bacterial network compactness and bacterial interaction consolidation. The relationships between organic to nutrient imbalances and bacterial assemblages may provide a theoretical basis for the empirical management of wetland ecosystems.
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- Fuchao Zheng
- School of Life Sciences, Institute of Wetland Ecology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
- Nanjing University Ecology Research Institute of Changshu, Changshu, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Institute of Wetland Ecology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
- Nanjing University Ecology Research Institute of Changshu, Changshu, Jiangsu, China
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- College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Institute of Wetland Ecology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Institute of Wetland Ecology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Institute of Wetland Ecology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Institute of Wetland Ecology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Institute of Wetland Ecology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Institute of Wetland Ecology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
- Nanjing University Ecology Research Institute of Changshu, Changshu, Jiangsu, China
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- School of Life Sciences, Institute of Wetland Ecology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
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Su W, Wang S, Yang J, Yu Q, Wirth S, Huang X, Qi W, Zhang X, Li H. Corpse decay of wild animals leads to the divergent succession of nrfA-type microbial communities. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2022; 106:5287-5300. [PMID: 35802158 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-022-12065-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2022] [Revised: 06/27/2022] [Accepted: 07/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Animal carcasses introduce large amounts of nitrates and ammonium into the soil ecosystem. Some of this ammonium is transformed from nitrite through the nrfA-type microbial community. However, it is unclear how nrfA-type microorganisms respond to the decomposition of corpses. This study applied high-throughput sequencing to characterize the ecological succession of nrfA-type microbial communities in grassland soil. Our results showed that Cyclobacterium and Trueperella were the predominant genera for nrfA-type communities in soil with a decomposing corpse (experimental group), while Cyclobacterium and Archangium were dominant in soil without a corpse (control group). The alpha diversity indexes and the resistance and resilience indexes of the microbial communities initially increased and then decreased during decomposition. Compared with the control group, nrfA-encoding community structure in the experimental group gradually became divergent with succession and temporal turnover accelerated. Network analysis revealed that the microbial communities of the experimental group had more complex interactions than those of the control groups. Moreover, the bacterial community assembly in the experimental group was governed by stochastic processes, and the communities of the experimental group had a weaker dispersal capacity than those of the control group. Our results reveal the succession patterns of the nrfA-type microbial communities during degradation of wild animal corpses, which can offer references for demonstrating the ecological mechanism underlying the changes in the nrfA-type microbial community during carcass decay. KEY POINTS: • Corpse decay accelerates the temporal turnover of the nrfA-type community in soil. • Corpse decay changes the ecological succession of the nrfA-type community in soil. • Corpse decay leads to a complex co-occurrence pattern of the nrfA-type community in soil.
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- Wanghong Su
- School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Institute of Landscape Biogeochemistry, Eberswalder Str. 84, 15374, Muncheberg, Germany
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- School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- Genesky Biotechnologies Inc., Shanghai, 201315, China
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- Key Laboratory of National Forestry and Grassland Administration On Silviculture in Loess Plateau, College of Forestry, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, 712100, China.
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- School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China. .,State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems, Center for Grassland Microbiome, College of pastoral agriculture science and technology, Lanzhou University, Gansu, 730000, China.
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Yu Q, Zhou R, Wang Y, Su W, Yang J, Feng T, Dou Y, Li H. Carcass decay deteriorates water quality and modifies the nirS denitrifying communities in different degradation stages. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 785:147185. [PMID: 33933763 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147185] [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: 02/09/2021] [Revised: 03/19/2021] [Accepted: 04/12/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Corpse degradation may release amounts of hazardous materials (e.g., cadaverine, putrescine and ammonia) into surrounding areas, which deteriorate environments and result in nitrogen contamination. Nitrate or nitrite can be reduced to nitrogen gas by denitrifying bacteria, thus alleviating nitrogen contamination and purifying aquatic environments. However, the reaction of nirS-encoding denitrifiers to carcass degradation is less studied. Therefore, water physiochemical analysis and high-throughput sequencing were applied to explore the successional pattern of nirS denitrifying communities in the Yellow River water and tap water during three stages of animal cadaver decay (submerged fresh, advanced floating decay as well as sunken remains) and relevant control group. Nitrate nitrogen (NO3-N) and ammonia nitrogen (NH4+-N) concentration in corpse groups were highly elevated compared with control groups. The dominant phylum for nirS denitrifying communities was Proteobacteria. Abundant denitrifying genera Paracoccus, Alicycliphilus and Diaphorobacter were detected, and these genera have been reported to participate in the degradation of organic pollutants. Particularly, nirS-type community structures were remarkably influenced by corpse decay and became similar with succession. Water total dissolved solids (TDS), salinity, conductivity (CON) and phosphate were primary impacting factors driving the community structures, but the effect of water type was almost negligible. Notably, denitrifying community assembly was dominated by deterministic processes rather than stochastic processes, and the relative importance of deterministic processes among most corpse groups was higher than that in control groups, indicating that environmental filtering regulates the denitrifying communities. Our results provide new insight into environmental purification for hazardous materials produced by corpse degradation, thereby providing valuable advice to environmental administration.
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- Qiaoling Yu
- School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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- Hubei Aquaculture Technology Extension Center (Hubei Aquatic Breeds Introduction and Breeding Center), Wuhan 430070, China
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- School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China; Center for Grassland Microbiome, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China..
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Mesocosm Experiments Reveal Global Warming Accelerates Macrophytes Litter Decomposition and Alters Decomposition-Related Bacteria Community Structure. WATER 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/w13141940] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Global climate change scenarios predict that lake water temperatures will increase up to 4 °C and extreme weather events, such as heat waves and large temperature fluctuations, will occur more frequently. Such changes may result in the increase of aquatic litter decomposition and on shifts in diversity and structure of bacteria communities in this period. We designed a two-month mesocosm experiment to explore how constant (+4 °C than ambient temperature) and variable (randomly +0~8 °C than ambient temperature) warming treatment will affect the submerged macrophyte litter decomposition process. Our data suggests that warming treatments may accelerate the decomposition of submerged macrophyte litter in shallow lake ecosystems, and increase the diversity of decomposition-related bacteria with community composition changed the relative abundance of Proteobacteria, especially members of Alphaproteobacteria increased while that of Firmicutes (mainly Bacillus) decreased.
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Zhou R, Wang Y, Hilal MG, Yu Q, Feng T, Li H. Temporal succession of water microbiomes and resistomes during carcass decomposition in a fish model. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2021; 403:123795. [PMID: 33264900 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.123795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2020] [Revised: 08/13/2020] [Accepted: 08/25/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Carcass decomposition in water may cause serious environmental pollution, which poses a great threat to water quality and public health. However, water microbial community succession and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) during carcass decomposition process are less explored. Using high-throughput sequencing and high-throughput quantitative PCR techniques, the temporal succession of water bacterial communities and ARGs profiles in experimental groups (fish carcasses) and control groups (no carcasses) containing two different types of water (the Yellow River water and tap water) in different successional stages were studied. Our results showed that NH3-N concentration in the corpse groups has greatly risen and exceeded more than 28 times on average over the safety thresholds of water quality. Some potential pathogenic genera Comamonas, Bacteroides and Pseudomonas significantly increased during carcass decomposition process. The bacterial communities of the Yellow River water and tap water in the experimental groups exhibited similar succession patterns, and community dissimilarities between the two groups decreased and smaller over time, indicating that bacterial community convergence. NH3-N, NO3-N and time were three most important factors in determining bacteria community structures. The influence of water type on corpse bacterial community structures was significant but weak. The gene copy number of seven detected ARGs (cmlA1-01, floR, sul1, sul2, tetG-01, tetM-01 and tetQ) in the experimental groups was more abundant than that in the control groups. The ARGs concentrations in the corpse groups were even enriched 19-fold (minimum) to 148-fold (maximum) compared to the gene tetQ of the Yellow River water in the control groups on the initial stage. Redundancy analysis (RDA) indicated that Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes were significantly correlated with all detected ARGs. This study emphasizes that cadaver degradation leads to the deterioration of nitrogen pollution, the abundance increase of potential pathogens, and the transfer of ARGs from dead animals to water environment, thereby uncovering the harmful effects of related water pollution for human health.
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- Rui Zhou
- School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- School of Public Health, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China; Center for Grassland Microbiome, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China.
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Liu C, Ye H, Wang Y, Sun Y, Liu Y, Yu Z, Yu L. Beyond dipole excitation: the performance of quadrupole-based Huygens' metasurface. OPTICS LETTERS 2020; 45:4847-4850. [PMID: 32870873 DOI: 10.1364/ol.400874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2020] [Accepted: 07/24/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Due to the utilization of overlapped dipole resonances, traditional Huygens' metasurfaces suffer from dipole interactions. In this Letter, we propose a design of phase-gradient Huygens' metasurface based on the quadrupole resonances excited in the cross-shaped structures. The quadrupole resonances are theoretically shown insensitive to the quadrupole interactions. Benefiting from this intrinsic property, the proposed metasurface can well suppress element interaction influence and exhibits some impressive properties, including the ability to suppress high diffraction orders, tunable anomalous refractive angles, and high transmission efficiency. The numerical results show promising potential for quadrupole resonances to be applied in advanced Huygens' metasurface designs.
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Wang Z, Han M, Li E, Liu X, Wei H, Yang C, Lu S, Ning K. Distribution of antibiotic resistance genes in an agriculturally disturbed lake in China: Their links with microbial communities, antibiotics, and water quality. JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS 2020; 393:122426. [PMID: 32143164 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.122426] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 29.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2019] [Revised: 02/12/2020] [Accepted: 02/28/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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In this study, six antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), one mobile genetic element (int1), and their relation with microbial communities, antibiotics, and water quality were investigated in and around of an agriculturally disturbed lake, namely, Lake Honghu. The ARGs and int1 in the research area had a 100 % detection frequency in each sample during two sampling times. The ARGs were higher in the rivers and inlets than in Lake Honghu. Sul1 was the main ARG in this area. Antibiotics, nutrients, and dissolved oxygen were significantly, positively, and negatively correlated with nearly all of the ARGs, respectively. This finding suggests that reducing antibiotics and the eutrophication level could reduce the risk of ARGs. Microbial community shift had the most direct contribution to ARG variation. However, when the indirect effect was considered, environmental factors contributed 34 % to the ARGs' variance, the microbial community contributed 28 %, and their joint effect contributed 27 % to the ARG profiles. The abundance of Firmicutes, Gemmatimonadetes, Proteobacteria, etc. and their positive correlation with ARGs were significant, suggesting that these phyla probably carry ARGs. The study provides a systematic profile of ARG distribution and dissemination in a typical Chinese lake and new ideas to control this emerging contaminant in lakes.
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- Zhi Wang
- Key Laboratory for Environment and Disaster Monitoring and Evaluation of Hubei Province, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430077, Hubei, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China
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- Key Laboratory for Environment and Disaster Monitoring and Evaluation of Hubei Province, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430077, Hubei, China
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- Key Laboratory for Environment and Disaster Monitoring and Evaluation of Hubei Province, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430077, Hubei, China
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- Key Laboratory for Environment and Disaster Monitoring and Evaluation of Hubei Province, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430077, Hubei, China
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- Key Laboratory for Environment and Disaster Monitoring and Evaluation of Hubei Province, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430077, Hubei, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria an Risk Assessment, Research Centre of Lake Environment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China.
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Niu C, Xue Y, Jia Y, Xu T, Liu C, Zheng F, Wang J, Li Q. Analysis of bacterial community dynamics in the manufacture process of lajiaojiang (red chili paste). Lebensm Wiss Technol 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.lwt.2019.108976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Feng C, Jia J, Wang C, Han M, Dong C, Huo B, Li D, Liu X. Phytoplankton and Bacterial Community Structure in Two Chinese Lakes of Different Trophic Status. Microorganisms 2019; 7:E621. [PMID: 31783682 PMCID: PMC6956004 DOI: 10.3390/microorganisms7120621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2019] [Revised: 11/20/2019] [Accepted: 11/25/2019] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Phytoplankton are the primary producers at the basis of aquatic food webs, and bacteria play an important role in energy flow and biochemical cycling in aquatic ecosystems. In this study, both the bacterial and phytoplankton communities were examined in the oligotrophic Lake Basomtso and the eutrophic Lake South (China). The results of this study showed that the phytoplankton density and diversity in the eutrophic lake were higher than those in the oligotrophic lake. Furthermore, Chlorophyta (68%) and Cryptophyta (24%) were the dominant groups in the eutrophic lake, while Bacillariophyta (95%) dominated in the oligotrophic lake. The bacterial communities in the waters and sediments of the two lakes were mainly composed of Proteobacteria (mean of 32%), Actinobacteria (mean of 25%), Bacteroidetes (mean of 12%), and Chloroflexi (mean of 6%). Comparative analysis showed that the abundance of bacteria in the eutrophic lake was higher than that in the oligotrophic lake (p < 0.05), but the bacterial diversity in the oligotrophic lake was higher than that in the eutrophic lake (p < 0.05). Finally, the bacterial abundance and diversity in the sediments of the two lakes were higher than those in the water samples (p < 0.05), and the Latescibacteria and Nitrospinae groups were identified only in the sediments. These results suggest that both the phytoplankton and bacterial communities differed considerably between the oligotrophic lake and the eutrophic lake.
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- College of Fisheries, Hubei Province Engineering Laboratory for Pond Aquaculture, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China; (C.F.); (J.J.); (C.W.); (M.H.); (C.D.); (B.H.); (D.L.)
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Shen M, Li Q, Ren M, Lin Y, Wang J, Chen L, Li T, Zhao J. Trophic Status Is Associated With Community Structure and Metabolic Potential of Planktonic Microbiota in Plateau Lakes. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:2560. [PMID: 31787952 PMCID: PMC6853845 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2019] [Accepted: 10/23/2019] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Microbes in various aquatic ecosystems play a key role in global energy fluxes and biogeochemical processes. However, the detailed patterns on the functional structure and the metabolic potential of microbial communities in freshwater lakes with different trophic status remain to be understood. We employed a metagenomics workflow to analyze the correlations between trophic status and planktonic microbiota in freshwater lakes on Yun-Gui Plateau, China. Our results revealed that microbial communities in the eutrophic and mesotrophic-oligotrophic lake ecosystems harbor distinct community structure and metabolic potential. Cyanobacteria were dominant in the eutrophic ecosystems, mainly driving the processes of aerobic respiration, fermentation, nitrogen assimilation, nitrogen mineralization, assimilatory sulfate reduction and sulfur mineralization in this ecosystem group. Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria (Alpha-, Beta-, and Gammaproteobacteria), Verrucomicrobia and Planctomycetes, occurred more often in the mesotrophic-oligotrophic ecosystems than those in the eutrophic ecosystems, and these taxa potentially mediate the above metabolic processes. In these two groups of ecosystems, a difference in the abundance of functional genes involved in carbohydrate metabolism, energy metabolism, glycan biosynthesis and metabolism, and metabolism of cofactors and vitamins significantly contribute to the distinct functional structure of microbiota from surface water. Furthermore, the microbe-mediated metabolic potentials for carbon, nitrogen and sulfur transformation showed differences in the two ecosystem groups. Compared with the mesotrophic-oligotrophic ecosystems, planktonic microbial communities in the eutrophic ecosystems showed higher potential for aerobic carbon fixation, fermentation, methanogenesis, anammox, denitrification, and sulfur mineralization, but they showed lower potential for aerobic respiration, CO oxidation, nitrogen fixation, and assimilatory sulfate reduction. This study offers insights into the relationships of trophic status to planktonic microbial community structure and its metabolic potential, and identifies the main taxa responsible for the biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur in freshwater lake environments.
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- Mengyuan Shen
- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Lake Science and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- Yunnan Key Laboratory of Plateau Geographical Processes and Environment Change, School of Tourism and Geography, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology and Biotechnology, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.,State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Genetic Engineering, College of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Chen C, He R, Cheng Z, Han M, Zha Y, Yang P, Yao Q, Zhou H, Zhong C, Ning K. The Seasonal Dynamics and the Influence of Human Activities on Campus Outdoor Microbial Communities. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:1579. [PMID: 31354673 PMCID: PMC6636667 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.01579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/04/2018] [Accepted: 06/25/2019] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Large-scale campus resembles a small “semi-open community,” harboring disturbances from the exchanges of people and vehicles, wherein stressors such as temperature and population density differ among the ground surfaces of functional partitions. Therefore, it represents a special ecological niche for the study on microbial ecology in the process of urbanization. In this study, we investigated outdoor microbial communities in four campuses in Wuhan, China. We obtained 284 samples from 55 sampling sites over six seasons, as well as their matching climatic and environmental records. The structure of campus outdoor microbial communities which influenced by multiple climatic factors featured seasonality. The dispersal influence of human activities on microbial communities also contributed to this seasonal pattern non-negligibly. However, despite the microbial composition alteration in response to multiple stressors, the overall predicted function of campus outdoor microbial communities remained stable across campuses. The spatial–temporal dynamic patterns on campus outdoor microbial communities and its predicted functions have bridged the gap between microbial and macro-level ecosystems, and provided hints toward a better understanding of the effects of climatic factors and human activities on campus micro-environments.
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- Chaoyun Chen
- Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Molecular-Imaging, Department of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Molecular-Imaging, Department of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Molecular-Imaging, Department of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Molecular-Imaging, Department of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Molecular-Imaging, Department of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Molecular-Imaging, Department of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Molecular-Imaging, Department of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Molecular-Imaging, Department of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Molecular-Imaging, Department of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, Hubei Key Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Molecular-Imaging, Department of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
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Agricultural Risk Factors Influence Microbial Ecology in Honghu Lake. GENOMICS PROTEOMICS & BIOINFORMATICS 2019; 17:76-90. [PMID: 31026580 PMCID: PMC6520916 DOI: 10.1016/j.gpb.2018.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2018] [Revised: 03/30/2018] [Accepted: 05/03/2018] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Agricultural activities, including stock-farming, planting industry, and fish aquaculture, can affect the physicochemical and biological characters of freshwater lakes. However, the effects of pollution producing by agricultural activities on microbial ecosystem of lakes remain unclear. Hence, in this work, we selected Honghu Lake as a typical lake that is influenced by agriculture activities. We collected water and sediment samples from 18 sites, which span a wide range of areas from impacted and less-impacted areas. We performed a geospatial analysis on the composition of microbial communities associated with physicochemical properties and antibiotic pollution of samples. The co-occurrence networks of water and sediment were also built and analyzed. Our results showed that the microbial communities of impacted and less-impacted samples of water were largely driven by the concentrations of TN, TP, NO3−-N, and NO2−-N, while those of sediment were affected by the concentrations of Sed-OM and Sed-TN. Antibiotics have also played important roles in shaping these microbial communities: the concentrations of oxytetracycline and tetracycline clearly reflected the variance in taxonomic diversity and predicted functional diversity between impacted and less-impacted sites in water and sediment samples, respectively. Furthermore, for samples from both water and sediment, large differences of network topology structures between impacted and less-impacted were also observed. Our results provide compelling evidence that the microbial community can be used as a sentinel of eutrophication and antibiotics pollution risk associated with agricultural activity; and that proper monitoring of this environment is vital to maintain a sustainable environment in Honghu Lake.
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Diversity of Bacteria in Lakes with Different Chlorophyll Content and Investigation of Their Respiratory Activity through a Long-Term Microcosm Experiment. WATER 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/w11030467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Bacterial community structure and metabolism are critical factors for ecosystem functioning since they affect remineralization of nutrients and carbon flow. We used Illumina sequencing of 16SrRNA V3-V4 regions to investigate whether bacterial assemblage composition differs between four samples from two lakes in the geographic region of Epirus (Greece) characterized by distinct oligotrophic to eutrophic/hypereutrophic conditions as revealed by chlorophyll-a values. We found high similarity (>60%) for bacterial assemblages recovered from the two lakes when eutrophic/hypereutrophic conditions prevailed. Distinct bacterial communities appeared in oligotrophic and mesotrophic waters. Low temperature was occasionally an important factor in shaping the bacterial community. In parallel, microcosm experiments were performed to estimate respiration rates of bacterioplankton at in situ temperature and under a 2 °C temperature increase scenario. Differently assembled communities were found to display similar rates except under hypereutrophic conditions when respiration increased significantly, leading to hypoxic conditions. Temperature increase did not affect respiration rates. Overall this study indicated a clear differentiation of bacterial communities between sites of different trophic state. However, different communities responded similarly under a specific range of chlorophyll-a values and resisted small scale temperature perturbations. Different results were found for hypereutrophic conditions and this has implications for ecosystems functioning, given the increasing occurrence of eutrophication events.
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Batrich M, Maskeri L, Schubert R, Ho B, Kohout M, Abdeljaber M, Abuhasna A, Kholoki M, Psihogios P, Razzaq T, Sawhney S, Siddiqui S, Xoubi E, Cooper A, Hatzopoulos T, Putonti C. Pseudomonas Diversity Within Urban Freshwaters. Front Microbiol 2019; 10:195. [PMID: 30828321 PMCID: PMC6384249 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2018] [Accepted: 01/23/2019] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Freshwater lakes are home to bacterial communities with 1000s of interdependent species. Numerous high-throughput 16S rRNA gene sequence surveys have provided insight into the microbial taxa found within these waters. Prior surveys of Lake Michigan waters have identified bacterial species common to freshwater lakes as well as species likely introduced from the urban environment. We cultured bacterial isolates from samples taken from the Chicago nearshore waters of Lake Michigan in an effort to look more closely at the genetic diversity of species found there within. The most abundant genus detected was Pseudomonas, whose presence in freshwaters is often attributed to storm water or runoff. Whole genome sequencing was conducted for 15 Lake Michigan Pseudomonas strains, representative of eight species and three isolates that could not be resolved with named species. These genomes were examined specifically for genes encoding functionality which may be advantageous in their urban environment. Antibiotic resistance, amidst other known virulence factors and defense mechanisms, were identified in the genome annotations and verified in the lab. We also tested the Lake Michigan Pseudomonas strains for siderophore production and resistance to the heavy metals mercury and copper. As the study presented here shows, a variety of pseudomonads have inhabited the urban coastal waters of Lake Michigan.
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- Mary Batrich
- Niehoff School of Nursing, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL, United States
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- Bioinformatics Program, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Bioinformatics Program, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.,Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Bioinformatics Program, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.,Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Department of Computer Science, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
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- Bioinformatics Program, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.,Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.,Department of Computer Science, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.,Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL, United States
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Mehrshad M, Salcher MM, Okazaki Y, Nakano SI, Šimek K, Andrei AS, Ghai R. Hidden in plain sight-highly abundant and diverse planktonic freshwater Chloroflexi. MICROBIOME 2018; 6:176. [PMID: 30285851 PMCID: PMC6169038 DOI: 10.1186/s40168-018-0563-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2018] [Accepted: 09/21/2018] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
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BACKGROUND Representatives of the phylum Chloroflexi, though reportedly highly abundant in the extensive deep water habitats of both marine (SAR202 up to 30% of total prokaryotes) and freshwater (CL500-11 up to 26% of total prokaryotes), remain uncultivated and uncharacterized. There are few metagenomic studies on marine Chloroflexi representatives, while the pelagic freshwater Chloroflexi community is largely unknown except for a single metagenome-assembled genome of CL500-11. RESULTS Here, we provide the first extensive examination of the community composition of this cosmopolitan phylum in a range of pelagic habitats (176 datasets) and highlight the impact of salinity and depth on their phylogenomic composition. Reconstructed genomes (53 in total) provide a perspective on the phylogeny, metabolism, and distribution of three novel classes and two family-level taxa within the phylum Chloroflexi. We unraveled a remarkable genomic diversity of pelagic freshwater Chloroflexi representatives that thrive not only in the hypolimnion as previously suspected, but also in the epilimnion. Our results suggest that the lake hypolimnion provides a globally stable habitat reflected in lower species diversity among hypolimnion-specific CL500-11 and TK10 clusters in distantly related lakes compared to a higher species diversity of the epilimnion-specific SL56 cluster. Cell volume analyses show that the CL500-11 are among the largest prokaryotic cells in the water column of deep lakes and with a biomass to abundance ratio of two they significantly contribute to the deep lake carbon flow. Metabolic insights indicate participation of JG30-KF-CM66 representatives in the global cobalamin production via cobinamide to cobalamin salvage pathway. CONCLUSIONS Extending phylogenomic comparisons to brackish and marine habitats suggests salinity as the major influencer of the community composition of the deep-dwelling Chloroflexi in marine (SAR202) and freshwater (CL500-11) habitats as both counterparts thrive in intermediate brackish salinity; however, freshwater habitats harbor the most phylogenetically diverse community of pelagic Chloroflexi representatives that reside both in epi- and hypolimnion.
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- Maliheh Mehrshad
- Institute of Hydrobiology, Department of Aquatic Microbial Ecology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Sádkách 7, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
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- Limnological Station, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Seestrasse 187, CH-8802, Kilchberg, Switzerland
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- Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, 2-509-3 Hirano, Otsu, Shiga, 520-2113, Japan
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- Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University, 2-509-3 Hirano, Otsu, Shiga, 520-2113, Japan
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- Institute of Hydrobiology, Department of Aquatic Microbial Ecology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Sádkách 7, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Hydrobiology, Department of Aquatic Microbial Ecology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Sádkách 7, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Hydrobiology, Department of Aquatic Microbial Ecology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Sádkách 7, 370 05, České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
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