bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Год журнала:
2022,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Сен. 27, 2022
Abstract
Land-ocean
interactions
greatly
impacted
the
evolution
of
coastal
life
on
Earth.
However,
geological
forces
and
genetic
mechanisms
that
shaped
evolutionary
adaptations
allowed
microorganisms
to
inhabit
brackish
waters
remain
largely
unexplored.
Here,
we
infer
trajectory
ubiquitous
heterotrophic
archaea
Poseidoniales
(Marine
Group
II
archaea)
across
global
aquatic
habitats.
Our
results
show
their
subgroups
have
evolved
through
rearrangement
magnesium
transport
gene
corA
conferred
osmotic-stress
tolerance
dated
over
600
million
years
ago.
The
family
showed
a
rapid
increase
in
rate
during
aftermath
Cryogenian
Snowball
Earth
(~700
ago),
possibly
response
enhanced
phosphorus
supply
rise
algae.
study
highlights
close
interplay
between
changes
ecosystem
transformations
boosted
microbial
diversification
Neoproterozoic
continental
margins.
Subsurface
environments
are
among
Earth’s
largest
habitats
for
microbial
life.
Yet,
until
recently,
we
lacked
adequate
data
to
accurately
differentiate
between
globally
distributed
marine
and
terrestrial
surface
subsurface
microbiomes.
Here,
analyzed
478
archaeal
964
bacterial
metabarcoding
datasets
147
metagenomes
from
diverse
widely
environments.
Microbial
diversity
is
similar
in
microbiomes
at
local
global
scales.
However,
community
composition
greatly
differs
sea
land,
corroborating
a
phylogenetic
divide
that
mirrors
patterns
plant
animal
diversity.
In
contrast,
overlaps
supporting
continuum
rather
than
discrete
biosphere.
Differences
life
thus
seem
greater
land
subsurface.
Diversity
of
decreases
with
depth,
while
distance
cultured
isolates
rivals
or
exceeds
We
identify
distinct
compositions
but
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Год журнала:
2023,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Ноя. 18, 2023
Abstract
Estuarine
and
coastal
ecosystems
are
of
high
economic
ecological
importance,
owing
to
their
diverse
communities
the
disproportionate
role
they
play
in
carbon
cycling,
particularly
sequestration.
Organisms
inhabiting
these
environments
must
overcome
strong
natural
fluctuations
salinity,
nutrients,
turbidity
as
well
numerous
climate
change-induced
disturbances
such
land
loss,
sea
level
rise,
and,
some
locations,
increasingly
severe
tropical
cyclones
that
threaten
disrupt
future
ecosystem
health.
The
northern
Gulf
Mexico
(nGoM)
along
Louisiana
coast
contains
dozens
estuaries,
including
Mississippi-Atchafalaya
River
outflow,
which
dramatically
influence
region
due
vast
upstream
watershed.
Nevertheless,
microbiology
estuaries
surrounding
have
received
little
attention.
To
improve
our
understanding
microbial
ecology
understudied
nGoM,
we
conducted
a
16S
rRNA
gene
amplicon
survey
at
eight
sites
multiple
timepoints
one
inland
swamp
spanning
freshwater
brackish
salinities,
totaling
47
duplicated
Sterivex
(0.2-2.7
µm)
prefilter
(>
2.7
samples.
We
cataloged
over
13,000
ASVs
from
common
marine
clades
SAR11
(Alphaproteobacteria),
Synechococcus
(Cyanobacteria),
acI
Candidatus
Actinomarina
(Actinobacteria).
observed
preferences
for
or
habitats
many
organisms
also
characterized
group
taxa
with
specialized
distributions
across
water
sites,
supporting
hypothesis
an
endogenous
brackish-water
community.
Additionally,
several
aquatic
typically
considered
taxa,
subclade
II,
SAR324,
Actinobacteria.
data
presented
here
expand
geographic
coverage
estuarine
communities,
help
delineate
autochthonous
allochthonous
members
environments,
provide
critical
microbiological
baseline
nGoM.
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory),
Год журнала:
2022,
Номер
unknown
Опубликована: Сен. 27, 2022
Abstract
Land-ocean
interactions
greatly
impacted
the
evolution
of
coastal
life
on
Earth.
However,
geological
forces
and
genetic
mechanisms
that
shaped
evolutionary
adaptations
allowed
microorganisms
to
inhabit
brackish
waters
remain
largely
unexplored.
Here,
we
infer
trajectory
ubiquitous
heterotrophic
archaea
Poseidoniales
(Marine
Group
II
archaea)
across
global
aquatic
habitats.
Our
results
show
their
subgroups
have
evolved
through
rearrangement
magnesium
transport
gene
corA
conferred
osmotic-stress
tolerance
dated
over
600
million
years
ago.
The
family
showed
a
rapid
increase
in
rate
during
aftermath
Cryogenian
Snowball
Earth
(~700
ago),
possibly
response
enhanced
phosphorus
supply
rise
algae.
study
highlights
close
interplay
between
changes
ecosystem
transformations
boosted
microbial
diversification
Neoproterozoic
continental
margins.