Aquatic microbial community is partially functionally redundant: Insights from an in situ reciprocal transplant experiment

Autor: Jeng-Wei Tsai, Chih-Yu Chiu, Bayanmunkh Baatar, Chia-Chin Yang, Chen Siang Ng, Min-Tao Wan, Kshitij Tandon, Wen-Cheng Liu, Sen-Lin Tang, Shan-Hua Yang
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Science of The Total Environment. 786:147433
ISSN: 0048-9697
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147433
Popis: Microbial communities are considered to be functionally redundant, but few studies have tested this hypothesis empirically. In this study, we performed an in situ reciprocal transplant experiment on the surface and bottom waters of two lakes (Tsuei-Feng (T) and Yuan-Yang (Y)) with disparate trophic states and tracked changes in their microbial community composition and functions for 6 weeks using high-throughput sequencing and functional approaches. T lake's surface (Ts) and bottom (Tb) water active bacterial community (16S rRNA gene-transcript) was dominated by Actinobacteria, Bacteroidia, and Cyanobacteria, whereas Y lake's surface (Ys) and bottom (Yb) water had Gammaproteobacteria, Alphaproteobacteria, and Bacteroidia as the dominant classes. The community composition was resistant to changes in environmental conditions following the reciprocal transplant, but their functions tended to become similar to the incubating lakes' functional profiles. A significant linear positive relationship was observed between the microbial community and functional attributes (surface: R2 = 0.5065, p
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