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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Seasonal variation in the copepod gut microbiome in the subtropical North Atlantic Ocean
Contributor:
Shoemaker, Katyanne M.;
Moisander, Pia H.
Published:
Wiley, 2017
Published in:
Environmental Microbiology, 19 (2017) 8, Seite 3087-3097
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1111/1462-2920.13780
ISSN:
1462-2912;
1462-2920
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
SummaryCharacterisation of marine copepod gut microbiome composition and its variability provides information on function of marine food webs, biogeochemical cycles and copepod health. Copepod gut microbiomes were investigated quarterly over two years at the Bermuda Atlantic Time‐series Station in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre, while assessing seasonal shifts in stable and transient communities. Microbial communities were analysed using amplicon sequencing targeting the bacterial 16S rRNA V3‐V4 region and the cyanobacterial ntcA gene. Persistent bacterial groups belonging to Firmicutes, Bacteroidetes and Actinobacteria were present in the copepod guts throughout the year, and showed synchronous changes, suggesting a link to variability in copepod nutritional content. The gut communities were separate from those in the seawater, suggesting the copepod gut hosts long‐term, specialized communities. Major temporal variations in the gut communities during the early winter and spring, specifically a high relative abundance of Synechococcus (up to 65%), were attributed to bacterioplankton shifts in the water column, and copepod grazing on these picoplanktonic cyanobacteria. The presence of obligate and facultative anaerobes, including Clostridiales year round, suggests that anaerobic bacterial processes are common in these dynamic microhabitats in the oligotrophic open ocean.