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Title: | Spatially extensive microbial biogeography of the Indian Ocean provides insights into the unique community structure of a pristine coral atoll | Authors: | Jeffries, Thomas C. Ostrowski, Martin Williams, Rohan B. Xie, Chao Jensen, Rachelle M. Grzymski, Joseph J. Senstius, Svend Jacob Givskov, Michael Hoeke, Ron Philip, Gayle K. Neches, Russell Y. Drautz-Moses, Daniela I. Chénard, Caroline Paulsen, Ian T. Lauro, Federico M. |
Issue Date: | 2015 | Source: | Jeffries, T. C., Ostrowski, M., Williams, R. B., Xie, C., Jensen, R. M., Grzymski, J. J., et al. (2015). Spatially extensive microbial biogeography of the Indian Ocean provides insights into the unique community structure of a pristine coral atoll. Scientific Reports, 5, 15383-. | Series/Report no.: | Scientific Reports | Abstract: | Microorganisms act both as drivers and indicators of perturbations in the marine environment. In an effort to establish baselines to predict the response of marine habitats to environmental change, here we report a broad survey of microbial diversity across the Indian Ocean, including the first microbial samples collected in the pristine lagoon of Salomon Islands, Chagos Archipelago. This was the first large-scale ecogenomic survey aboard a private yacht employing a ‘citizen oceanography’ approach and tools and protocols easily adapted to ocean going sailboats. Our data highlighted biogeographic patterns in microbial community composition across the Indian Ocean. Samples from within the Salomon Islands lagoon contained a community which was different even from adjacent samples despite constant water exchange, driven by the dominance of the photosynthetic cyanobacterium Synechococcus. In the lagoon, Synechococcus was also responsible for driving shifts in the metatranscriptional profiles. Enrichment of transcripts related to photosynthesis and nutrient cycling indicated bottom-up controls of community structure. However a five-fold increase in viral transcripts within the lagoon during the day, suggested a concomitant top-down control by bacteriophages. Indeed, genome recruitment against Synechococcus reference genomes suggested a role of viruses in providing the ecological filter for determining the β-diversity patterns in this system. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81041 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39054 |
ISSN: | 2045-2322 | DOI: | 10.1038/srep15383 | Schools: | Asian School of the Environment | Organisations: | Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering | Rights: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | Fulltext Permission: | open | Fulltext Availability: | With Fulltext |
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