Bacterial responses to background organic pollutants in the northeast subarctic Pacific Ocean

Autor: Benjamí Piña, Ronald P. Kiene, Jordi Dachs, Adrià Auladell, Elena Cerro-Gálvez, Mary Ann Moran, Shalabh Sharma, Maria Vila-Costa, Alícia Martinez-Varela
Přispěvatelé: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), Generalitat de Catalunya, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Pollution
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Biology
Microbiology
03 medical and health sciences
Northeast Subarctic Pacific Ocean
Microbilogy
Dissolved organic carbon
Gammaproteobacteria
Temperate climate
Enginyeria agroalimentària::Ciències de la terra i de la vida::Microbiologia [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC]
Marine microbiology
Humans
Seawater
Anthropogenic dissolved organic carbon
Ecology
Evolution
Behavior and Systematics

030304 developmental biology
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Pollutant
0303 health sciences
geography
geography.geographical_feature_category
Pacific Ocean
Bacteria
030306 microbiology
Ecology
Continental shelf
Microbiota
Marine bacteria
Bacterioplankton
biology.organism_classification
Subarctic climate
Microbiologia marina
Bacteris marins
Organic pollutants
Environmental Pollutants
NSPO
Bacterias
Zdroj: Digital.CSIC: Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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Popis: Thousands of man-made synthetic chemicals are released to oceans and compose the anthropogenic dissolved organic carbon (ADOC). Little is known about the effects of this chronic pollution on marine microbiome activities. In this study, we measured the pollution level at three sites in the Northeast Subarctic Pacific Ocean (NESAP) and investigated how mixtures of three model families of ADOC at different environmentally relevant concentrations affected naturally occurring marine bacterioplankton communities' structure and metabolic functioning. The offshore northernmost site (North) had the lowest concentrations of hydrocarbons, as well as organophosphate ester plasticizers, contrasting with the two other continental shelf sites, the southern coastal site (South) being the most contaminated. At North, ADOC stimulated bacterial growth and promoted an increase in the contribution of some Gammaproteobacteria groups (e.g. Alteromonadales) to the 16 rRNA pool. These groups are described as fast responders after oil spills. In contrast, minor changes in South microbiome activities were observed. Gene expression profiles at Central showed the coexistence of ADOC degradation and stress-response strategies to cope with ADOC toxicities. These results show that marine microbial communities at three distinct domains in NESAP are influenced by background concentrations of ADOC, expanding previous assessments for polar and temperate waters.
This publication is dedicated to the memory of our missed friend, mentor and colleague, Prof. Ronald P. Kiene. The authors thank the Capitan and crew of the R/V Oceanus. This work was funded by the Spanish MEIC through projects ISOMICS (CTM2015-65691-R) and SENTINEL (CTM2015-70535-P). The authors sincerely thank J.M. Gasol for support with flow cytometry counts and I. Forn for microscopy counts. The research group of Global Change and Genomic Biogeochemistry is supported by the Catalan Government (2017SGR800). IDAEA-CSIC is a Centre of Excellence Severo Ochoa (Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Project CEX2018-000794-S).
With the funding support of the ‘Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence’ accreditation (CEX2019-000928-S), of the Spanish Research Agency (AEI).
Databáze: OpenAIRE