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Kendlbacher V, Winter TMR, Bright M. Zoothamnium mariella sp. nov., a marine, colonial ciliate with an atypcial growth pattern, and its ectosymbiont Candidatus Fusimicrobium zoothamnicola gen. nov., sp. nov. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0300758. [PMID: 38557976 PMCID: PMC10984469 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0300758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2023] [Accepted: 03/04/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024] Open
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Ciliates are unicellular eukaryotes, regularly involved in symbiotic associations. Symbionts may colonize the inside of their cells as well as their surface as ectosymbionts. Here, we report on a new ciliate species, designated as Zoothamnium mariella sp. nov. (Peritrichia, Sessilida), discovered in the northern Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean Sea) in 2021. We found this ciliate species to be monospecifically associated with a new genus of ectosymbiotic bacteria, here proposed as Candidatus Fusimicrobium zoothamnicola gen. nov., sp. nov. To formally describe the new ciliate species, we investigated its morphology and sequenced its 18S rRNA gene. To demonstrate its association with a single species of bacterial ectosymbiont, we performed 16S rRNA gene sequencing, fluorescence in situ hybridization, and scanning electron microscopy. Additionally, we explored the two partners' cultivation requirements and ecology. Z. mariella sp. nov. was characterized by a colony length of up to 1 mm. A consistent number of either seven or eight long branches alternated on the stalk in close distance to each other. The colony developed three different types of zooids: microzooids ("trophic stage"), macrozooids ("telotroch stage"), and terminal zooids ("dividing stage"). Viewed from inside the cell, the microzooids' oral ciliature ran in 1 ¼ turns in a clockwise direction around the peristomial disc before entering the infundibulum, where it performed another ¾ turn. Phylogenetic analyses assigned Z. mariella sp. nov. to clade II of the family Zoothamnidae. The ectosymbiont formed a monophyletic clade within the Gammaproteobacteria along with two other ectosymbionts of peritrichous ciliates and a free-living vent bacterium. It colonized the entire surface of its ciliate host, except for the most basal stalk of large colonies, and exhibited a single, spindle-shaped morphotype. Furthermore, the two partners together appear to be generalists of temperate, oxic, marine shallow-water environments and were collectively cultivable in steady flow-through systems.
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- Vincent Kendlbacher
- Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Espada‐Hinojosa S, Karthäuser C, Srivastava A, Schuster L, Winter T, de Oliveira AL, Schulz F, Horn M, Sievert S, Bright M. Comparative genomics of a vertically transmitted thiotrophic bacterial ectosymbiont and its close free-living relative. Mol Ecol Resour 2024; 24:e13889. [PMID: 38010882 PMCID: PMC10952691 DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2023] [Revised: 08/31/2023] [Accepted: 10/20/2023] [Indexed: 11/29/2023]
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Thiotrophic symbioses between sulphur-oxidizing bacteria and various unicellular and metazoan eukaryotes are widespread in reducing marine environments. The giant colonial ciliate Zoothamnium niveum, however, is the only host of thioautotrophic symbionts that has been cultivated along with its symbiont, the vertically transmitted ectosymbiont Candidatus Thiobius zoothamnicola (short Thiobius). Because theoretical predictions posit a smaller genome in vertically transmitted endosymbionts compared to free-living relatives, we investigated whether this is true also for an ectosymbiont. We used metagenomics to recover the high-quality draft genome of this bacterial symbiont. For comparison we have also sequenced a closely related free-living cultured but not formally described strain Milos ODIII6 (short ODIII6). We then performed comparative genomics to assess the functional capabilities at gene, metabolic pathway and trait level. 16S rRNA gene trees and average amino acid identity confirmed the close phylogenetic relationship of both bacteria. Indeed, Thiobius has about a third smaller genome than its free-living relative ODIII6, with reduced metabolic capabilities and fewer functional traits. The functional capabilities of Thiobius were a subset of those of the more versatile ODIII6, which possessed additional genes for oxygen, sulphur and hydrogen utilization and for the acquisition of phosphorus illustrating features that may be adaptive for the unstable environmental conditions at hydrothermal vents. In contrast, Thiobius possesses genes potentially enabling it to utilize lactate and acetate heterotrophically, compounds that may be provided as byproducts by the host. The present study illustrates the effect of strict host-dependence of a bacterial ectosymbiont on genome evolution and host adaptation.
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- Biology DepartmentWoods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionWoods HoleMassachusettsUSA
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- Department of Functional and Evolutionary EcologyUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria
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- Department of Functional and Evolutionary EcologyUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria
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Deakin UniversityBurwoodAustralia
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- Department of Functional and Evolutionary EcologyUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria
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- Department of Functional and Evolutionary EcologyUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria
- Present address:
Max Planck Institute for Marine MicrobiologyBremenGermany
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- Center for Microbiology and Environmental Systems ScienceUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria
- Present address:
DOE Joint Genome InstituteBerkeleyCaliforniaUSA
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- Center for Microbiology and Environmental Systems ScienceUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria
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- Biology DepartmentWoods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionWoods HoleMassachusettsUSA
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- Department of Functional and Evolutionary EcologyUniversity of ViennaViennaAustria
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Bright M, Espada-Hinojosa S, Volland JM, Drexel J, Kesting J, Kolar I, Morchner D, Nussbaumer A, Ott J, Scharhauser F, Schuster L, Zambalos HC, Nemeschkal HL. Thiotrophic bacterial symbiont induces polyphenism in giant ciliate host Zoothamnium niveum. Sci Rep 2019; 9:15081. [PMID: 31636334 PMCID: PMC6803713 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-51511-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2019] [Accepted: 10/02/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Evolutionary theory predicts potential shifts between cooperative and uncooperative behaviour under fluctuating environmental conditions. This leads to unstable benefits to the partners and restricts the evolution of dependence. High dependence is usually found in those hosts in which vertically transmitted symbionts provide nutrients reliably. Here we study host dependence in the marine, giant colonial ciliate Zoothamnium niveum and its vertically transmitted, nutritional, thiotrophic symbiont from an unstable environment of degrading wood. Previously, we have shown that sulphidic conditions lead to high host fitness and oxic conditions to low fitness, but the fate of the symbiont has not been studied. We combine several experimental approaches to provide evidence for a sulphide-tolerant host with striking polyphenism involving two discrete morphs, a symbiotic and an aposymbiotic one. The two differ significantly in colony growth form and fitness. This polyphenism is triggered by chemical conditions and elicited by the symbiont’s presence on the dispersing swarmer. We provide evidence of a single aposymbiotic morph found in nature. We propose that despite a high fitness loss when aposymbiotic, the ciliate has retained a facultative life style and may use the option to live without its symbiont to overcome spatial and temporal shortage of sulphide in nature.
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- Monika Bright
- University of Vienna, Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, Vienna, Austria.
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- University of Vienna, Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, Vienna, Austria
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- University of Vienna, Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, Vienna, Austria
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- University of Vienna, Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, Vienna, Austria
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- University of Vienna, Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, Vienna, Austria
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- University of Vienna, Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, Vienna, Austria
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- University of Vienna, Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, Vienna, Austria
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- University of Vienna, Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, Vienna, Austria
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- University of Vienna, Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, Vienna, Austria
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- University of Vienna, Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, Vienna, Austria
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Volland JM, Schintlmeister A, Zambalos H, Reipert S, Mozetič P, Espada-Hinojosa S, Turk V, Wagner M, Bright M. NanoSIMS and tissue autoradiography reveal symbiont carbon fixation and organic carbon transfer to giant ciliate host. THE ISME JOURNAL 2018; 12:714-727. [PMID: 29426952 PMCID: PMC5854253 DOI: 10.1038/s41396-018-0069-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/23/2017] [Revised: 10/03/2017] [Accepted: 10/09/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The giant colonial ciliate Zoothamnium niveum harbors a monolayer of the gammaproteobacteria Cand. Thiobios zoothamnicoli on its outer surface. Cultivation experiments revealed maximal growth and survival under steady flow of high oxygen and low sulfide concentrations. We aimed at directly demonstrating the sulfur-oxidizing, chemoautotrophic nature of the symbionts and at investigating putative carbon transfer from the symbiont to the ciliate host. We performed pulse-chase incubations with 14C- and 13C-labeled bicarbonate under varying environmental conditions. A combination of tissue autoradiography and nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry coupled with transmission electron microscopy was used to follow the fate of the radioactive and stable isotopes of carbon, respectively. We show that symbiont cells fix substantial amounts of inorganic carbon in the presence of sulfide, but also (to a lesser degree) in the absence of sulfide by utilizing internally stored sulfur. Isotope labeling patterns point to translocation of organic carbon to the host through both release of these compounds and digestion of symbiont cells. The latter mechanism is also supported by ultracytochemical detection of acid phosphatase in lysosomes and in food vacuoles of ciliate cells. Fluorescence in situ hybridization of freshly collected ciliates revealed that the vast majority of ingested microbial cells were ectosymbionts.
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- Jean-Marie Volland
- Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
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- Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, Research Network "Chemistry meets Microbiology" and Large-Instrument Facility for Advanced Isotope Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Cell Imaging and Ultrastructure Research (CIUS), University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- National Institute of Biology, Marine Biology Station, Piran, Slovenia
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- National Institute of Biology, Marine Biology Station, Piran, Slovenia
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- Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, Research Network "Chemistry meets Microbiology" and Large-Instrument Facility for Advanced Isotope Research, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Limnology and Bio-Oceanography, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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Grimonprez A, Molza A, Laurent MC, Mansot JL, Gros O. Thioautotrophic ectosymbiosis in Pseudovorticella sp., a peritrich ciliate species colonizing wood falls in marine mangrove. Eur J Protistol 2018; 62:43-55. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejop.2017.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/24/2017] [Revised: 11/13/2017] [Accepted: 11/15/2017] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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A Novel Colonial Ciliate Zoothamnium ignavum sp. nov. (Ciliophora, Oligohymenophorea) and Its Ectosymbiont Candidatus Navis piranensis gen. nov., sp. nov. from Shallow-Water Wood Falls. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0162834. [PMID: 27683199 PMCID: PMC5040259 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0162834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2016] [Accepted: 08/29/2016] [Indexed: 12/04/2022] Open
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Symbioses between ciliate hosts and prokaryote or unicellular eukaryote symbionts are widespread. Here, we report on a novel ciliate species within the genus Zoothamnium Bory de St. Vincent, 1824, isolated from shallow-water sunken wood in the North Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean Sea), proposed as Zoothamnium ignavum sp. nov. We found this ciliate species to be associated with a novel genus of bacteria, here proposed as “Candidatus Navis piranensis” gen. nov., sp. nov. The descriptions of host and symbiont species are based on morphological and ultrastructural studies, the SSU rRNA sequences, and in situ hybridization with symbiont-specific probes. The host is characterized by alternate microzooids on alternate branches arising from a long, common stalk with an adhesive disc. Three different types of zooids are present: microzooids with a bulgy oral side, roundish to ellipsoid macrozooids, and terminal zooids ellipsoid when dividing or bulgy when undividing. The oral ciliature of the microzooids runs 1¼ turns in a clockwise direction around the peristomial disc when viewed from inside the cell and runs into the infundibulum, where it makes another ¾ turn. The ciliature consists of a paroral membrane (haplokinety), three adoral membranelles (polykineties), and one stomatogenic kinety (germinal kinety). One circular row of barren kinetosomes is present aborally (trochal band). Phylogenetic analyses placed Z. ignavum sp. nov. within the clade II of the polyphyletic family Zoothamniidae (Oligohymenophorea). The ectosymbiont was found to occur in two different morphotypes, as rods with pointed ends and coccoid rods. It forms a monophyletic group with two uncultured Gammaproteobacteria within an unclassified group of Gammaproteobacteria, and is only distantly related to the ectosymbiont of the closely related peritrich Z. niveum (Hemprich and Ehrenberg, 1831) Ehrenberg, 1838.
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Bright M, Espada-Hinojosa S, Lagkouvardos I, Volland JM. The giant ciliate Zoothamnium niveum and its thiotrophic epibiont Candidatus Thiobios zoothamnicoli: a model system to study interspecies cooperation. Front Microbiol 2014; 5:145. [PMID: 24778630 PMCID: PMC3985026 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2014] [Accepted: 03/20/2014] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Symbioses between chemoautotrophic sulfur-oxidizing (thiotrophic) bacteria and protists or animals are among the most diverse and prevalent in the ocean. They are extremely difficult to maintain in aquaria and no thiotrophic symbiosis involving an animal host has ever been successfully cultivated. In contrast, we have cultivated the giant ciliate Zoothamnium niveum and its obligate ectosymbiont Candidatus Thiobios zoothamnicoli in small flow-through aquaria. This review provides an overview of the host and the symbiont and their phylogenetic relationships. We summarize our knowledge on the ecology, geographic distribution and life cycle of the host, on the vertical transmission of the symbiont, and on the cultivation of this symbiosis. We then discuss the benefits and costs involved in this cooperation compared with other thiotrophic symbioses and outline our view on the evolution and persistence of this byproduct mutualism.
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- Monika Bright
- Department of Limnology and Oceanography, University of ViennaVienna, Austria
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- Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Science, University of ViennaVienna, Austria
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- Department of Limnology and Oceanography, University of ViennaVienna, Austria
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Herron MD, Rashidi A, Shelton DE, Driscoll WW. Cellular differentiation and individuality in the 'minor' multicellular taxa. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 2013; 88:844-61. [PMID: 23448295 PMCID: PMC4103886 DOI: 10.1111/brv.12031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2012] [Revised: 01/30/2013] [Accepted: 02/05/2013] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Biology needs a concept of individuality in order to distinguish organisms from parts of organisms and from groups of organisms, to count individuals and compare traits across taxa, and to distinguish growth from reproduction. Most of the proposed criteria for individuality were designed for 'unitary' or 'paradigm' organisms: contiguous, functionally and physiologically integrated, obligately sexually reproducing multicellular organisms with a germ line sequestered early in development. However, the vast majority of the diversity of life on Earth does not conform to all of these criteria. We consider the issue of individuality in the 'minor' multicellular taxa, which collectively span a large portion of the eukaryotic tree of life, reviewing their general features and focusing on a model species for each group. When the criteria designed for unitary organisms are applied to other groups, they often give conflicting answers or no answer at all to the question of whether or not a given unit is an individual. Complex life cycles, intimate bacterial symbioses, aggregative development, and strange genetic features complicate the picture. The great age of some of the groups considered shows that 'intermediate' forms, those with some but not all of the traits traditionally associated with individuality, cannot reasonably be considered ephemeral or assumed transitional. We discuss a handful of recent attempts to reconcile the many proposed criteria for individuality and to provide criteria that can be applied across all the domains of life. Finally, we argue that individuality should be defined without reference to any particular taxon and that understanding the emergence of new kinds of individuals requires recognizing individuality as a matter of degree.
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- Matthew D. Herron
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, 1041 Lowell St, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, 1041 Lowell St, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, 1041 Lowell St, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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Laurent MCZ, Le Bris N, Gaill F, Gros O. Dynamics of wood fall colonization in relation to sulfide concentration in a mangrove swamp. MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2013; 87-88:85-95. [PMID: 23623161 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2013.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2012] [Revised: 03/23/2013] [Accepted: 03/27/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Wood debris are an important component of mangrove marine environments. Current knowledge of the ecological role of wood falls is limited by the absence of information on metazoan colonization processes over time. The aim of this study was to provide insights to their temporal dynamics of wood eukaryotic colonization from a shallow water experiment in a mangrove swamp. Combined in situ chemical monitoring and biological surveys revealed that the succession of colonizers in the mangrove swamp relates with the rapid evolution of sulfide concentration on the wood surface. Sulfide-tolerant species are among the first colonizers and dominate over several weeks when the sulfide content is at its maximum, followed by less tolerant opportunistic species when sulfide decreases. This study supports the idea that woody debris can sustain chemosynthetic symbioses over short time-scale in tropical shallow waters.
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- Mélina C Z Laurent
- UMR-CNRS-IRD-MNHN-UPMC 7138, Systématique-Adaptation-Evolution, Equipe « Biologie de la mangrove », Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, UFR des Sciences Exactes et Naturelles, Département de Biologie, BP 592, 97159 Pointe-à-Pitre Cedex, Guadeloupe, France
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Effect of active water movement on energy and nutrient acquisition in coral reef-associated benthic organisms. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2013; 110:8767-8. [PMID: 23671104 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1306839110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Dirks U, Gruber-Vodicka HR, Egger B, Ott JA. Proliferation pattern during rostrum regeneration of the symbiotic flatworm Paracatenula galateia: a pulse-chase-pulse analysis. Cell Tissue Res 2012; 349:517-25. [PMID: 22729484 PMCID: PMC3414702 DOI: 10.1007/s00441-012-1426-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2011] [Accepted: 03/30/2012] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The remarkable totipotent stem-cell-based regeneration capacities of the Platyhelminthes have brought them into the focus of stem cell and regeneration research. Although selected platyhelminth groups are among the best-studied invertebrates, our data provide new insights into regenerative processes in the most basally branching group of the Platyhelminthes, the Catenulida. The mouth- and gutless free-living catenulid flatworm Paracatenula galateia harbors intracellular bacterial symbionts in its posterior body region, the trophosome region, accounting for up to 50% of the volume. Following decapitation of this flatworm, we have analyzed the behavior of the amputated fragments and any anterior and posterior regeneration. Using an EdU-pulse-chase/BrdU-pulse thymidine analog double-labeling approach combined with immunohistochemistry, we show that neoblasts are the main drivers of the regeneration processes. During anterior (rostrum) regeneration, EdU-pulse-chase-labeled cells aggregate inside the regenerating rostrum, whereas BrdU pulse-labeling before fixation indicates clusters of S-phase neoblasts at the same position. In parallel, serotonergic nerves reorganize and the brain regenerates. In completely regenerated animals, the original condition with S-phase neoblasts being restricted to the body region posterior to the brain is restored. In contrast, no posterior regeneration or growth of the trophosome region in anterior fragments cut a short distance posterior to the brain has been observed. Our data thus reveal interesting aspects of the cellular processes underlying the regeneration of the emerging catenulid-bacteria symbiosis model P. galateia and show that a neoblast stem cell system is indeed a plesiomorphic feature of basal platyhelminths.
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- Ulrich Dirks
- Department of Marine Biology, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
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Ecological strategies of protists and their symbiotic relationships with prokaryotic microbes. Trends Microbiol 2009; 17:563-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2009.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2009] [Revised: 09/01/2009] [Accepted: 09/07/2009] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Laurent MCZ, Gros O, Brulport JP, Gaill F, Bris NL. Sunken wood habitat for thiotrophic symbiosis in mangrove swamps. MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2009; 67:83-88. [PMID: 19131100 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2008.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/19/2008] [Revised: 11/24/2008] [Accepted: 11/27/2008] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Large organic falls to the benthic environment, such as dead wood or whale bones, harbour organisms relying on sulfide-oxidizing symbionts. Nothing is known however, concerning sulfide enrichment at the wood surface and its relation to wood colonization by sulfide-oxidizing symbiotic organisms. In this study we combined in situ hydrogen sulfide and pH measurements on sunken wood, with associated fauna microscopy analyses in a tropical mangrove swamp. This shallow environment is known to harbour thiotrophic symbioses and is also abundantly supplied with sunken wood. A significant sulfide enrichment at the wood surface was revealed. A 72h sequence of measurements emphasized the wide fluctuation of sulfide levels (0.1->100muM) over time with both a tidal influence and rapid fluctuations. Protozoans observed on the wood surface were similar to Zoothamnium niveum and to vorticellids. Our SEM observations revealed their association with ectosymbiotic bacteria, which are likely to be sulfide-oxidizers. These results support the idea that sunken wood surfaces constitute an environment suitable for sulfide-oxidizing symbioses.
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- Mélina C Z Laurent
- Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, UFR des Sciences Exactes et Naturelles, Département de Biologie, B.P. 592, 97159 Pointe-à-Pitre Cedex, Guadeloupe, France.
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Cell proliferation and growth inZoothamnium niveum (Oligohymenophora, Peritrichida) — Thiotrophic bacteria symbiosis. Symbiosis 2009. [DOI: 10.1007/bf03179969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Rinke C, Schmitz-Esser S, Loy A, Horn M, Wagner M, Bright M. High genetic similarity between two geographically distinct strains of the sulfur-oxidizing symbiont âCandidatus Thiobios zoothamnicoliâ. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 2009; 67:229-41. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.2008.00628.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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