Spatiotemporal analysis of microbial community dynamics during seasonal stratification events in a freshwater lake (Grand Lake, OK, USA).

Autor: Morrison JM; Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, United States of America., Baker KD; Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, United States of America., Zamor RM; Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA), Vinita, OK, United States of America., Nikolai S; Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA), Vinita, OK, United States of America., Elshahed MS; Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, United States of America., Youssef NH; Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, United States of America.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2017 May 11; Vol. 12 (5), pp. e0177488. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 May 11 (Print Publication: 2017).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0177488
Abstrakt: Many freshwater lakes undergo seasonal stratification, where the formation of phototrophic blooms in the epilimnion and subsequent sedimentation induces hypoxia/anoxia in the thermocline and hypolimnion. This autochthonously produced biomass represents a major seasonal organic input that impacts the entire ecosystem. While the limnological aspects of this process are fairly well documented, relatively little is known regarding the microbial community response to such events, especially in the deeper anoxic layers of the water column. Here, we conducted a spatiotemporal survey of the particle-associated and free-living microbial communities in a warm monomictic freshwater reservoir (Grand Lake O' the Cherokees) in northeastern Oklahoma, USA. Pre-stratification samples (March) harbored a homogeneous community throughout the oxygenated water column dominated by typical oligotrophic aquatic lineages (acl clade within Actinobacteria, and Flavobacterium within the Bacteroidetes). The onset of phototrophic blooming in June induced the progression of this baseline community into two distinct trajectories. Within the oxic epilimnion, samples were characterized by the propagation of phototrophic (Prochlorococcus), and heterotrophic (Planctomycetes, Verrucomicrobia, and Beta-Proteobacteria) lineages. Within the oxygen-deficient thermocline and hypolimnion, the sedimentation of surface biomass induced the development of a highly diverse community, with the enrichment of Chloroflexi, "Latescibacteria", Armatimonadetes, and Delta-Proteobacteria in the particle-associated fraction, and Gemmatimonadetes and "Omnitrophica" in the free-living fraction. Our work documents the development of multiple spatially and temporally distinct niches during lake stratification, and supports the enrichment of multiple yet-uncultured and poorly characterized lineages in the lake's deeper oxygen-deficient layers, an ecologically relevant microbial niche that is often overlooked in lakes diversity surveys.
Databáze: MEDLINE