Global phylogeography of marine $Synechococcus$ in coastal areas reveals strong community shifts

Autor: Hugo Doré, Jade Leconte, Ulysse Guyet, Solène Breton, Gregory K. Farrant, David Demory, Morgane Ratin, Mark Hoebeke, Erwan Corre, Frances D. Pitt, Martin Ostrowski, David J. Scanlan, Frédéric Partensky, Christophe Six, Laurence Garczarek
Přispěvatelé: Adaptation et diversité en milieu marin (AD2M), Station biologique de Roscoff [Roscoff] (SBR), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), ANR-17-CE02-0014,CINNAMON,Analyse multi-échelle de l'adaptation à la carence en Fer chez un organisme clé du phytoplancton marin, dans un contexte de changement global(2017), ANR-13-ADAP-0010,SAMOSA,Synechococcus as a model genus for studying adaptation of marine phytoplankton to environmental changes(2013), European Project: 287589,MicroB3, European Project: 730984,Assemble plus, Blanchard, JL
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: mSystems
mSystems, 2022, 7 (6), pp.ANR-17-CE02-0014-01. ⟨10.1128/msystems.00656-22⟩
ISSN: 2379-5077
Popis: Marine Synechococcus comprise a numerically and ecologically prominent phytoplankton group, playing a major role in both carbon cycling and trophic networks in all oceanic regions except in the polar oceans. Despite their high abundance in coastal areas, our knowledge of Synechococcus communities in these environments is based on only a few local studies. Here, we use the global metagenome data set of the Ocean Sampling Day (June 21st, 2014) to get a snapshot of the taxonomic composition of coastal Synechococcus communities worldwide, by recruitment on a reference database of 141 picocyanobacterial genomes, representative of the whole Prochlorococcus, Synechococcus, and Cyanobium diversity. This allowed us to unravel drastic community shifts over small to medium scale gradients of environmental factors, in particular along European coasts. The combined analysis of the phylogeography of natural populations and the thermophysiological characterization of eight strains, representative of the four major Synechococcus lineages (clades I to IV), also brought novel insights about the differential niche partitioning of clades I and IV, which most often co-dominate the Synechococcus community in cold and temperate coastal areas. Altogether, this study reveals several important characteristics and specificities of the coastal communities of Synechococcus worldwide. IMPORTANCE Synechococcus is the second most abundant phytoplanktonic organism on Earth, and its wide genetic diversity allowed it to colonize all the oceans except for polar waters, with different clades colonizing distinct oceanic niches. In recent years, the use of global metagenomics data sets has greatly improved our knowledge of "who is where" by describing the distribution of Synechococcus clades or ecotypes in the open ocean. However, little is known about the global distribution of Synechococcus ecotypes in coastal areas, where Synechococcus is often the dominant phytoplanktonic organism. Here, we leverage the global Ocean Sampling Day metagenomics data set to describe Synechococcus community composition in coastal areas worldwide, revealing striking community shifts, in particular along the coasts of Europe. As temperature appears as an important driver of the community composition, we also characterize the thermal preferenda of 8 Synechococcus strains, bringing new insights into the adaptation to temperature of the dominant Synechococcus clades.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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