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Lu G, Zhang Z, Wang WX. Metal bioaccumulation and transfer in benthic species based on isotopic signatures of individual amino acids in South China Sea cold seep environments. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2023; 317:120822. [PMID: 36481461 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.120822] [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: 07/19/2022] [Revised: 10/29/2022] [Accepted: 12/03/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
Abstract
Cold seeps are deep-sea 'oases' with dense and dominant coexisting populations of large mussels and tubeworms under extreme environments. Under such natural source of high metal concentrations, the present study investigated the metal bioaccumulation and transfer with trophic positions in six benthic species by the isotopic δ15N and δ13C signatures in the active Haima cold seep, South China Sea. Comparing the isotopic signatures of bulk-tissue and amino acids by compound-specific isotopic analysis (CSIA-AA), we found that the bulk trophic (TPB) values in the benthos except mussels were significantly higher than those of CSIA-based TPGlu-Phe values. The estimated CSIA-based TPGlu-Phe values showed a relatively compressed food chain with much changeable and unique amino acid isotopic heterogeneity, followed slim tubeworms (1.20)<mussels (1.38)<clams (1.52)<brittle stars (1.82)<giant tubeworms (2.16)<shrimps (2.31). All species accumulated relatively high concentrations of Fe, Zn, Cu, and Cr, especially for Zn in clams. Pearson correlation analysis showed that most metals had no significant relationship between their bioaccumulation and trophic positions, whereas Hg showed a significantly positive bioaccumulation through trophic transfer in such a compressed food chain. Water exposure was a major metal source rather than bacterial assimilation for most metals in the cold seep higher consumers. Hyperaccumulation of specific metals in some tissues of different benthos indicated different metal overflows in the Haima cold seep (As and Ni for tubeworms, Zn and Cd for clam gills, Ag and Cu for mussel gills). This study demonstrated high metal adaptations in different species and stable isotopic characteristics of amino acid metabolism in a natural high metal source of an active deep-sea cold seep, which is important for deep-sea development and environmental protection.
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- Guangyuan Lu
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, 511458, China; Research Center for the Oceans and Human Health, City University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, 51807, China
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- School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China
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- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, 511458, China; Research Center for the Oceans and Human Health, City University of Hong Kong Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, 51807, China; School of Energy and Environment, State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
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Lyu L, Li J, Chen Y, Mai Z, Wang L, Li Q, Zhang S. Degradation potential of alkanes by diverse oil-degrading bacteria from deep-sea sediments of Haima cold seep areas, South China Sea. Front Microbiol 2022; 13:920067. [PMID: 36338091 PMCID: PMC9626528 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.920067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2022] [Accepted: 09/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Marine oil spills are a significant concern worldwide, destroying the ecological environment and threatening the survival of marine life. Various oil-degrading bacteria have been widely reported in marine environments in response to marine oil pollution. However, little information is known about culturable oil-degrading bacteria in cold seep of the deep-sea environments, which are rich in hydrocarbons. This study enriched five oil-degrading consortia from sediments collected from the Haima cold seep areas of the South China Sea. Parvibaculum, Erythrobacter, Acinetobacter, Alcanivorax, Pseudomonas, Marinobacter, Halomonas, and Idiomarina were the dominant genera. Further results of bacterial growth and degradation ability tests indicated seven efficient alkane-degrading bacteria belonging to Acinetobacter, Alcanivorax, Kangiella, Limimaricola, Marinobacter, Flavobacterium, and Paracoccus, whose degradation rates were higher in crude oil (70.3–78.0%) than that in diesel oil (62.7–66.3%). From the view of carbon chain length, alkane degradation rates were medium chains > long chains > short chains. In addition, Kangiella aquimarina F7, Acinetobacter venetianus F1, Limimaricola variabilis F8, Marinobacter nauticus J5, Flavobacterium sediminis N3, and Paracoccus sediminilitoris N6 were first identified as oil-degrading bacteria from deep-sea environments. This study will provide insight into the bacterial community structures and oil-degrading bacterial diversity in the Haima cold seep areas, South China Sea, and offer bacterial resources to oil bioremediation applications.
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- Lina Lyu
- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
- Lina Lyu,
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China
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- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou), Guangzhou, China
- *Correspondence: Si Zhang,
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Zhang Y, Huang N, Wang M, Liu H, Jing H. Microbial Eukaryotes Associated With Sediments in Deep-Sea Cold Seeps. Front Microbiol 2021; 12:782004. [PMID: 35003010 PMCID: PMC8740301 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.782004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2021] [Accepted: 11/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Microbial eukaryotes are key components of the marine food web, but their distribution in deep-sea chemosynthetic ecosystems has not been well studied. Here, high-throughput sequencing of the 18S rRNA gene and network analysis were applied to investigate the diversity, distribution and potential relationships between microbial eukaryotes in samples collected from two cold seeps and one trough in the northern South China Sea. SAR (i.e., Stramenopiles, Alveolata, and Rhizaria) was the predominant group in all the samples, and it was highly affiliated to genotypes with potential symbiotic and parasitic strategies identified from other deep-sea extreme environments (e.g., oxygen deficient zones, bathypelagic waters, and hydrothermal vents). Our findings indicated that specialized lineages of deep-sea microbial eukaryotes exist in chemosynthetic cold seeps, where microbial eukaryotes affiliated with parasitic/symbiotic taxa were prevalent in the community. The biogeographic pattern of the total community was best represented by the intermediate operational taxonomic unit (OTU) category, whose relative abundance ranged 0.01–1% within a sample, and the communities of the two cold seeps were distinct from the trough, which suggests that geographical proximity has no critical impact on the distribution of deep-sea microbial eukaryotes. Overall, this study has laid the foundations for future investigations regarding the ecological function and in situ trophic relationships of microbial eukaryotes in deep-sea ecosystems.
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- Yue Zhang
- CAS Key Laboratory for Experimental Study Under Deep-Sea Extreme Conditions, Institute of Deep-Sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory for Experimental Study Under Deep-Sea Extreme Conditions, Institute of Deep-Sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China
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- Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China
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- Department of Ocean Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
- HKUST-CAS Sanya Joint Laboratory of Marine Science Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Zhuhai, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory for Experimental Study Under Deep-Sea Extreme Conditions, Institute of Deep-Sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China
- HKUST-CAS Sanya Joint Laboratory of Marine Science Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China
- Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory, Zhuhai, China
- *Correspondence: Hongmei Jing,
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Lin G, Lu J, Sun Z, Xie J, Huang J, Su M, Wu N. Characterization of tissue-associated bacterial community of two Bathymodiolus species from the adjacent cold seep and hydrothermal vent environments. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 796:149046. [PMID: 34328889 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2021] [Revised: 07/08/2021] [Accepted: 07/10/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Deep-sea mussels are widely distributed in marine chemosynthetic ecosystems. Bathymodiolus platifrons and B. japonicus, occurring at both cold seeps and hydrothermal vents, have been reported to house exclusively methanotrophic symbionts in the gill. However, the comparison of microbiota associated with different tissues between these two species from two contrasting habitats is still limited. In this study, using B. platifrons and B. japonicus collected from the adjacent cold seep and hydrothermal vent environments, we sampled different tissues (gill, adductor muscle, mantle, foot, and visceral mass including the gut) to decipher the microbial community structure at the tissue scale by employing 16S rRNA gene sequencing strategy. In the gill of both seep mussels and vent mussels, the symbiont gammaproteobacterial Methylomonaceae was the predominant lineage, and methane oxidation was identified as one of the most abundant putative function. In comparison, abundant families in other tissues were Pseudomonadaceae and Enterobacteriaceae in seep mussels and vent mussels, respectively, which may get involved in element cycling. The results revealed high similarity of community structure between two mussel species from the same habitat. The gill showed distinctive bacterial community structure compared with other tissues within the same environment, while the gill communities from two environments were more similar. Remarkably structural variations of adductor muscle, mantle, foot, and visceral mass were observed between two environments. This study can extend the understanding on the characteristics of tissue-associated microbiota of deep-sea mussels from the adjacent cold seep and hydrothermal vent environments.
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- Genmei Lin
- School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China
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- School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China; Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai 519080, China.
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- Key Laboratory of Gas Hydrate, Ministry of Natural Resources, Institute of Marine Geology, China Geological Survey, Qingdao 266071, China; Laboratory for Mineral Resources, Qingdao Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Sciences and Technology, Qingdao 266071, China
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- School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China
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- School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China
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- School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai 519082, China; Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai 519080, China
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- Key Laboratory of Gas Hydrate, Ministry of Natural Resources, Institute of Marine Geology, China Geological Survey, Qingdao 266071, China; Laboratory for Mineral Resources, Qingdao Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Sciences and Technology, Qingdao 266071, China.
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