Organic matter type defines the composition of active microbial communities originating from anoxic Baltic Sea sediments
Suominen, S.; van Vliet, D.M.; Sánchez-Andrea, I.; van der Meer, M.T.J.; Sinninghe Damsté, J.S; Villanueva, L. (2021). Organic matter type defines the composition of active microbial communities originating from anoxic Baltic Sea sediments. Front. Microbiol. 12: 628301. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.628301
In: Frontiers in Microbiology. Frontiers Media: Lausanne. ISSN 1664-302X; e-ISSN 1664-302X, more
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sediment; microbial ecology; DNA stable isotope probing; organic matter; acetate; fermentation; Chloroflexi; Bathyarchaeota |
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- Suominen, S.
- van Vliet, D.M.
- Sánchez-Andrea, I.
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- van der Meer, M.T.J., more
- Sinninghe Damsté, J.S, more
- Villanueva, L., more
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| Abstract |
Carbon cycling in anoxic marine sediments is dependent on uncultured microbial communities. Niches of heterotrophic microorganisms are defined by organic matter (OM) type and the different phases in OM degradation. We investigated how OM type defines microbial communities originating from organic-rich, anoxic sediments from the Baltic Sea. We compared changes in the sediment microbial community, after incubation with different stable isotope labeled OM types [i.e., particulate algal organic matter (PAOM), protein, and acetate], by using DNA stable isotope probing (DNA-SIP). Incorporation of 13C and/or 15N label waspredominantly detected in members of the phyla Planctomycetes and Chloroflexi, which also formed the majority (>50%) of the original sediment community. While these phylum-level lineages incorporated label from all OM types, phylogenetic analyses revealed a niche separationat the order level. Members of the MSBL9 (Planctomycetes), theAnaerolineales (Chloroflexi), and the class Bathyarchaeota, were identified as initial degraders ofcarbohydrate-rich OM, while other uncultured orders, like the CCM11a andPhycisphaerales (Planctomycetes), Dehalococcoidia, and JG30-KF-CM66 (Chloroflexi), incorporated label also from protein and acetate. Our study highlights the importance of initial fermentation of complex carbon pools in shaping anoxic sediment microbial communities and reveals niche specialization at the order level for the most important initial degraders in anoxic sediments.
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