Recurrent patterns of microdiversity in a temperate coastal marine environment
Recurrent patterns of microdiversity in a temperate coastal marine environment
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2017-10-24
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Chafee, Meghan E.
Fernàndez-Guerra, Antonio
Buttigieg, Pier Luigi
Gerdts, Gunnar
Eren, A. Murat
Teeling, Hanno
Amann, Rudolf I.
Fernàndez-Guerra, Antonio
Buttigieg, Pier Luigi
Gerdts, Gunnar
Eren, A. Murat
Teeling, Hanno
Amann, Rudolf I.
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10.1038/ismej.2017.165
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Temperate coastal marine environments are replete with complex biotic and abiotic interactions that are amplified during spring and summer phytoplankton blooms. During these events, heterotrophic bacterioplankton respond to successional releases of dissolved organic matter as algal cells are lysed. Annual seasonal shifts in the community composition of free-living bacterioplankton follow broadly predictable patterns, but whether similar communities respond each year to bloom disturbance events remains unknown owing to a lack of data sets, employing high-frequency sampling over multiple years. We capture the fine-scale microdiversity of these events with weekly sampling using a high-resolution method to discriminate 16S ribosomal RNA gene amplicons that are >99% identical. Furthermore, we used 2 complete years of data to facilitate identification of recurrent sub-networks of co-varying microbes. We demonstrate that despite inter-annual variation in phytoplankton blooms and despite the dynamism of a coastal–oceanic transition zone, patterns of microdiversity are recurrent during both bloom and non-bloom conditions. Sub-networks of co-occurring microbes identified reveal that correlation structures between community members appear quite stable in a seasonally driven response to oligotrophic and eutrophic conditions.
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© The Author(s), 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in The ISME Journal 12 (2018): 237–252, doi:10.1038/ismej.2017.165.
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The ISME Journal 12 (2018): 237–252