scholarly journals The Cloacal Microbiome Changes with the Breeding Season in a Wild Bird

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
C Escallón ◽  
L K Belden ◽  
I T Moore
Keyword(s):  
Bacterial Community ◽  
Breeding Season ◽  
Bacterial Community Composition ◽  
Free Living ◽  
Sexually Transmitted ◽  
Zonotrichia Capensis ◽  
Investment In Reproduction ◽  
Successful Establishment ◽  
Breeding Condition ◽  
Breeding Seasons

Abstract The symbiotic microbial communities, or “microbiomes,” that reside on animals are dynamic, and can be affected by the behavior and physiology of the host. These communities provide many critical beneficial functions for their hosts, but they can also include potential pathogens. In birds, bacteria residing in the cloaca form a complex community, including both gut and sexually-transmitted bacteria. Transmission of cloacal bacteria among individuals is likely during the breeding season, when there is direct cloacal contact between individuals. In addition, the major energetic investment in reproduction can draw resources away from immune responses that might otherwise prevent the successful establishment of microbes. We assessed dynamic variation in the cloacal microbiome of free-living rufous-collared sparrows (Zonotrichia capensis) through sequential breeding and non-breeding seasons. We found that the cloacal bacterial communities differed between the sexes when they were in breeding condition. Further, in males, but not in females, the bacterial community became more diverse with the onset of reproduction, and then decreased in diversity as males transitioned to non-breeding condition. Individuals sampled across sequential breeding seasons did not accumulate more bacterial taxa over seasons, but bacterial community composition did change. Our results suggest that the cloacal microbiome in birds is dynamic and, especially in males, responsive to breeding condition.

scholarly journals Colonization in the Photic Zone and Subsequent Changes during Sinking Determine Bacterial Community Composition in Marine Snow

2014 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 1463-1471 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Thiele ◽  
Bernhard M. Fuchs ◽  
Rudolf Amann ◽  
Morten H. Iversen
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Community ◽  
Bacterial Community ◽  
Microbial Communities ◽  
Community Composition ◽  
Bacterial Community Composition ◽  
Microbial Community Composition ◽  
Marine Snow ◽  
Free Living ◽  
Fluorescence Maximum

ABSTRACTDue to sampling difficulties, little is known about microbial communities associated with sinking marine snow in the twilight zone. A drifting sediment trap was equipped with a viscous cryogel and deployed to collect intact marine snow from depths of 100 and 400 m off Cape Blanc (Mauritania). Marine snow aggregates were fixed and washedin situto prevent changes in microbial community composition and to enable subsequent analysis using catalyzed reporter deposition fluorescencein situhybridization (CARD-FISH). The attached microbial communities collected at 100 m were similar to the free-living community at the depth of the fluorescence maximum (20 m) but different from those at other depths (150, 400, 550, and 700 m). Therefore, the attached microbial community seemed to be “inherited” from that at the fluorescence maximum. The attached microbial community structure at 400 m differed from that of the attached community at 100 m and from that of any free-living community at the tested depths, except that collected near the sediment at 700 m. The differences between the particle-associated communities at 400 m and 100 m appeared to be due to internal changes in the attached microbial community rather thande novocolonization, detachment, or grazing during the sinking of marine snow. The new sampling method presented here will facilitate future investigations into the mechanisms that shape the bacterial community within sinking marine snow, leading to better understanding of the mechanisms which regulate biogeochemical cycling of settling organic matter.

scholarly journals Environmental Drivers of Free-Living vs. Particle-Attached Bacterial Community Composition in the Mauritania Upwelling System

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Bachmann ◽  
Tabea Heimbach ◽  
Christiane Hassenrück ◽  
Germán A. Kopprio ◽  
Morten Hvitfeldt Iversen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bacterial Community ◽  
Community Composition ◽  
Bacterial Community Composition ◽  
Environmental Drivers ◽  
Free Living ◽  
Upwelling System

scholarly journals Impacts of Extreme Weather Events on Bacterial Community Composition of a Temperate Humic Lake

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 2757
Author(s):  
Alexa Hoke ◽  
Jason Woodhouse ◽  
Luca Zoccarato ◽  
Valerie McCarthy ◽  
Elvira de Eyto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bacterial Community ◽  
Community Composition ◽  
Bacterial Communities ◽  
Bacterial Community Composition ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Extreme Weather ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Free Living ◽  
Drought Period ◽  
Weather Events

Extreme weather events are projected to increase in frequency and intensity as climate change continues. Heterotrophic bacteria play a critical role in lake ecosystems, yet little research has been done to determine how they are affected by such extremes. The purpose of this study was to use high-throughput sequencing to explore the bacterial community composition of a humic oligotrophic lake on the North Atlantic Irish coast and to assess the impacts on composition dynamics related to extreme weather events. Samples for sequencing were collected from Lough Feeagh on a fortnightly basis from April to November 2018. Filtration was used to separate free-living and particle-associated bacterial communities and amplicon sequencing was performed for the 16S rRNA V4 region. Two named storms, six high discharge events, and one drought period occurred during the sampling period. These events had variable, context-dependent effects on bacterial communities in Lough Feeagh. The particle-associated community was found to be more likely to respond to physical changes, such as mixing, while the free-living population responded to changes in nutrient and carbon concentrations. Generally, however, the high stability of the bacterial community observed in Lough Feeagh suggests that the bacterial community is relatively resilient to extreme weather events.

Importance of free-living and particle-associated bacteria for the growth of the harmful dinoflagellate Prorocentrum minimum: evidence in culture stages

2018 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bum Soo Park ◽  
Ruoyu Guo ◽  
Weol-Ae Lim ◽  
Jang-Seu Ki
Keyword(s):  
Bacterial Community ◽  
Harmful Algal Blooms ◽  
Algal Blooms ◽  
Bacterial Community Composition ◽  
Hierarchical Cluster ◽  
Prorocentrum Minimum ◽  
Growth Stages ◽  
Roseobacter Clade ◽  
Free Living ◽  
Associated Bacteria

The marine dinoflagellate Prorocentrum minimum is the cause of harmful algal blooms and may grow in association with co-occurring bacteria as ectosymbiotic, endosymbiotic and free-living forms. In the present study we investigated the bacterial community composition of both free-living bacteria (FLB) and particle-associated bacteria (PAB) in the lag, exponential and stationary growth stages of P. minimum using pyrosequencing. Metagenomics, hierarchical cluster and non-metric multidimensional scaling analyses revealed that FLB and PAB had significantly different bacterial community compositions. The PAB community had greater taxonomic richness and diversity than the FLB community. In addition, the shared bacteria identified were clearly dominant in both the FLB (≥98.2%) and PAB (≥89.9%) communities. Among shared bacteria, the genera Seohaeicola (P. minimum operational taxonomic unit (OTU) #1) and Roseovarius (P. minimum OTU #6), belonging to the Roseobacter clade, were predominant in FLB (42–57%) and PAB (11–14%) communities respectively. In the PAB community, the Marinobacter clade (P. minimum OTU #13 and #15) was also a dominant taxon. Interestingly, in response to the growth of P. minimum, the proportion of the Roseobacter clade increased gradually, whereas the genus Marinobacter decreased in both the FLB and PAB communities. These results suggest that Roseobacter and Marinobacter clades are intimately associated with host dinoflagellate.

scholarly journals Complexity of Bacterial Communities in a River-Floodplain System (Danube, Austria)

2005 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 609-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharina Besemer ◽  
Markus M. Moeseneder ◽  
Jesus M. Arrieta ◽  
Gerhard J. Herndl ◽  
Peter Peduzzi
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Bacterial Community ◽  
Bacterial Communities ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Bacterial Community Composition ◽  
Inorganic Nutrients ◽  
Danube River ◽  
Polymorphism Analysis ◽  
Free Living ◽  
River Floodplain

ABSTRACT Natural floodplains play an essential role in the processing and decomposition of organic matter and in the self-purification ability of rivers, largely due to the activity of bacteria. Knowledge about the composition of bacterial communities and its impact on organic-matter cycling is crucial for the understanding of ecological processes in river-floodplain systems. Particle-associated and free-living bacterial assemblages from the Danube River and various floodplain pools with different hydrological characteristics were investigated using terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. The particle-associated bacterial community exhibited a higher number of operational taxonomic units (OTUs) and was more heterogeneous in time and space than the free-living community. The temporal dynamics of the community structure were generally higher in isolated floodplain pools. The community structures of the river and the various floodplain pools, as well as those of the particle-associated and free-living bacteria, differed significantly. The compositional dynamics of the planktonic bacterial communities were related to changes in the algal biomass, temperature, and concentrations of organic and inorganic nutrients. The OTU richness of the free-living community was correlated with the concentration and origin of organic matter and the concentration of inorganic nutrients, while no correlation with the OTU richness of the particle-associated assemblage was found. Our results demonstrate the importance of the river-floodplain interactions and the influence of damming and regulation on the bacterial-community composition.

scholarly journals Abiotic environmental factors override phytoplankton succession in shaping both free-living and attached bacterial communities in a highland lake

AMB Express ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Huan Wang ◽  
Rong Zhu ◽  
Xiaolin Zhang ◽  
Yun Li ◽  
Leyi Ni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Bacterial Community ◽  
Species Composition ◽  
Community Composition ◽  
Bacterial Communities ◽  
Phytoplankton Community ◽  
Bacterial Community Composition ◽  
Free Living ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Abiotic Environmental Factors

Abstract Bacterial communities are an important part of biological diversity and biogeochemical cycling in aquatic ecosystems. In this study, the relationship amongst the phytoplankton species composition and abiotic environmental factors on seasonal changes in the community composition of free-living and attached bacteria in Lake Erhai were studied. Using Illumina high-throughput sequencing, we found that the impact of environmental factors on both the free-living and attached bacterial community composition was greater than that of the phytoplankton community, amongst which total phosphorus, Secchi disk, water temperature, dissolved oxygen and conductivity strongly influenced bacterial community composition. Microcystis blooms associated with subdominant Psephonema occurred during the summer and autumn, and Fragilaria, Melosira and Mougeotia were found at high densities in the other seasons. Only small numbers of algal species-specific bacteria, including Xanthomonadaceae (Proteobacteria) and Alcaligenaceae (Betaproteobacteria), were tightly coupled to Microcystis and Psephonema during Microcystis blooms. Redundancy analysis showed that although the composition of the bacterial communities was controlled by species composition mediated by changes in phytoplankton communities and abiotic environmental factors, the impact of the abiotic environment on both free-living and attached bacterial community compositions were greater than the impact of the phytoplankton community. These results suggest that the species composition of both free-living and attached bacterial communities are affected by abiotic environmental factors, even when under strong control by biotic factors, particularly dominant genera of Microcystis and Psephonema during algal blooms.

scholarly journals Temporal dynamics in the free-living bacterial community composition in the coastal North Sea

2012 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 413-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Sintes ◽  
Harry Witte ◽  
Karen Stodderegger ◽  
Paul Steiner ◽  
Gerhard J. Herndl
Keyword(s):  
Bacterial Community ◽  
Community Composition ◽  
North Sea ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Bacterial Community Composition ◽  
Free Living

Assessment of viral assemblages in different types of wetland water in northeast China using RAPD-PCR

2020 ◽  
Vol 85 ◽  
pp. 183-196
Author(s):  
Y Sun ◽  
J Liu ◽  
Q Yao ◽  
J Jin ◽  
X Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bacterial Community ◽  
Water Samples ◽  
Northeast China ◽  
Bacterial Community Composition ◽  
Freshwater Wetlands ◽  
Viral Community ◽  
Rapd Pcr ◽  
Wetland Water ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Viral Communities

Viruses are the most abundant and ubiquitous biological entities in various ecosystems, yet few investigations of viral communities in wetlands have been performed. To address this data gap, water samples from 6 wetlands were randomly collected across northeast China; viruses in the water were concentrated by sequential tangential flow filtration, and viral communities were assessed through randomly amplified polymorphic DNA-PCR (RAPD-PCR) with 4 decamer oligonucleotide primers. Principal coordinate analysis and hierarchical clustering analysis of the DNA fingerprints showed that viral community compositions differed among the water samples: communities in the 2 coastal wetlands were more similar to each other than to those in the 4 freshwater wetlands. The Shannon-Weaver index (H) and evenness index (E) of the RAPD-PCR fingerprint also differed among the 6 wetlands. Mantel test revealed that the changes in viral communities in wetland water were most closely related to the water NH4+-N and inorganic C content, followed by total K, P, C and NO3--N. DNA sequence analysis of the excised bands revealed that viruses accounted for ~40% of all sequences. Among the hit viral homologs, the majority belonged to the Microviridae. Moreover, variance partitioning analysis showed that the viral community contributed 24.58% while environmental factors explained 30.56% of the bacterial community variation, indicating that the bacterial community composition was strongly affected by both viral community and water variables. This work provides an initial outline of the viral communities from different types of wetlands in northeast China and improves our understanding of the viral diversity in these ecosystems.

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