Composition and interactions among bacterial, microeukaryotic, and T4-like viral assemblages in lakes from both polar zones

Aguirre de Cárcer, Daniel; Pedrós-Alió, Carlos; Pearce, David A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5292-4596; Alcamí, Antonio. 2016 Composition and interactions among bacterial, microeukaryotic, and T4-like viral assemblages in lakes from both polar zones. Frontiers in Microbiology, 7, 337. 11, pp. 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00337

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.00337

Abstract/Summary

In this study we assess global biogeography and correlation patterns among three components of microbial life: bacteria, microeukaryotes, and T4-like myoviruses. In addition to environmental and biogeographical considerations, we have focused our study on samples from high-latitude pristine lakes from both poles, since these simple island-like ecosystems represent ideal ecological models to probe the relationships among microbial components and with the environment. Bacterial assemblages were dominated by members of the same groups found to dominate freshwater ecosystems elsewhere, and microeukaryotic assemblages were dominated by photosynthetic microalgae. Despite inter-lake variations in community composition, the overall percentages of OTUs shared among sites was remarkable, indicating that many microeukaryotic, bacterial, and viral OTUs are globally-distributed. We observed an intriguing negative correlation between bacterial and microeukaryotic diversity values. Notably, our analyses show significant global correlations between bacterial and microeukaryotic community structures, and between the phylogenetic compositions of bacterial and T4-like virus assemblages. Overall, environmental filtering emerged as the main factor driving community structures.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.3389/fmicb.2016.00337
Programmes:	BAS Programmes > BAS Programmes 2015 > Ecosystems
ISSN:	1664-302X
Additional Keywords:	bacteria, microeukaryotes, T4 phages, pyrosequencing, divserity, lakes, polar
Date made live:	23 Mar 2016 12:10 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/513312

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

10.3389/fmicb.2016.00337

Programmes:

BAS Programmes > BAS Programmes 2015 > Ecosystems

ISSN:

1664-302X

Additional Keywords:

bacteria, microeukaryotes, T4 phages, pyrosequencing, divserity, lakes, polar

Date made live:

23 Mar 2016 12:10 +0 (UTC)