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Diversity of Pico- to Mesoplankton along the 2000 km Salinity Gradient of the Baltic Sea
KTH, Centra, Science for Life Laboratory, SciLifeLab. KTH, Skolan för bioteknologi (BIO), Genteknologi.ORCID-id: 0000-0002-2025-2198
KTH, Skolan för bioteknologi (BIO), Genteknologi. KTH, Centra, Science for Life Laboratory, SciLifeLab.ORCID-id: 0000-0002-3627-6899
2016 (Engelska)Ingår i: Frontiers in Microbiology, E-ISSN 1664-302X, Vol. 7, artikel-id 679Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
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Microbial plankton form the productive base of both marine and freshwater ecosystems and are key drivers of global biogeochemical cycles of carbon and nutrients. Plankton diversity is immense with representations from all major phyla within the three domains of life. So far, plankton monitoring has mainly been based on microscopic identification, which has limited sensitivity and reproducibility, not least because of the numerical majority of plankton being unidentifiable under the light microscope. High-throughput sequencing of taxonomic marker genes offers a means to identify taxa inaccessible by traditional methods; thus, recent studies have unveiled an extensive previously unknown diversity of plankton. Here, we conducted ultra-deep Illumina sequencing (average 105 sequences/sample) of rRNA gene amplicons of surface water eukaryotic and bacterial plankton communities sampled in summer along a 2000 km transect following the salinity gradient of the Baltic Sea. Community composition was strongly correlated with salinity for both bacterial and eukaryotic plankton assemblages, highlighting the importance of salinity for structuring the biodiversity within this ecosystem. In contrast, no clear trends in alpha-diversity for bacterial or eukaryotic communities could be detected along the transect. The distribution of major planktonic taxa followed expected patterns as observed in monitoring programs, but groups novel to the Baltic Sea were also identified, such as relatives to the coccolithophore Erniliana huxleyi detected in the northern Baltic Sea. This study provides the first ultra-deep sequencing-based survey on eukaryotic and bacterial plankton biogeography in the Baltic Sea.

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Frontiers Media , 2016. Vol. 7, artikel-id 679
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Baltic Sea, protists, bacterioplankton, brackish, metabarcoding, marine microbiology, microbial ecology
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Mikrobiologi
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-188057DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00679ISI: 000375685400001PubMedID: 27242706Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84973541011OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-188057DiVA, id: diva2:937437
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QC 20160615

Tillgänglig från: 2016-06-15 Skapad: 2016-06-03 Senast uppdaterad: 2024-03-15Bibliografiskt granskad
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1. Microbial DNA Sequencing in Environmental Studies
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Microbial DNA Sequencing in Environmental Studies
2017 (Engelska)Doktorsavhandling, sammanläggning (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
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The field of microbial ecology has just entered a new era of rapid technological development and generation of big data. The high-throughput sequencing techniques presently available provide an opportunity to extensively inventorize the blueprints of life. Now, millions of microbes of natural microbial communities can be studied simultaneously without prior cultivation. New species and new functions (genes) can be discovered just by mining sequencing data. However, there is still a tremendous number of microorganisms not yet examined, nor are the ecosystem functions these carry out. The modern genomic technologies can contribute to solve environmental problems and help us understand ecosystems, but to most efficiently do so, methods need to be continuously optimised.

 

During my Ph. D. studies, I developed a method to survey eukaryotic microbial diversity with a higher accuracy, and applied various sequencing-based approaches in an attempt to answer questions of importance in environmental research and ecology. In PAPER-I, we developed a set of 18S rRNA gene PCR primers with high taxonomic coverage, meeting the requirements of currently popular sequencing technologies and matching the richness of 18S rRNA reference sequences accumulated so far. In PAPER-II, we conducted the first sequencing-based spatial survey on the combined eukaryotic and bacterial planktonic community in the Baltic Sea to uncover the relationship of microbial diversity and environmental conditions. Here, the 18S primers designed in PAPER-I and a pair of broad-coverage 16S primers were employed to target the rRNA genes of protists and bacterioplankton for amplicon sequencing. In PAPER-III, we integrated metagenomic, metabarcoding, and metatranscriptomic data in an effort to scrutinise the protein synthesis potential (i.e., activity) of microbes in the sediment at a depth of 460 m in the Baltic Sea and, thus, disclosing microbial diversity and their possible ecological functions within such an extreme environment. Lastly, in PAPER-IV, we compared the performance of E. coli culturing, high-throughput sequencing, and portable real-time sequencing in tracking wastewater contamination in an urban stormwater system. From the aspects of cost, mobility and accuracy, we evaluated the usage of sequencing-based approaches in civil engineering, and for the first time, validated the real-time sequencing device in use within water quality monitoring.

 

In summary, these studies demonstrate how DNA sequencing of microbial communities can be applied in environmental monitoring and ecological research.

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Stockholm: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2017. s. 63
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TRITA-BIO-Report, ISSN 1654-2312 ; 2017:8
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DNA sequencing; Metabarcoding; Microbial ecology; Baltic Sea; Microbial community; Illumina; Oxford Nanopore; Source tracking; Stormwater
Nationell ämneskategori
Mikrobiologi Samhällsbyggnadsteknik Ekologi Bioinformatik och systembiologi
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Bioteknologi
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urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-204897 (URN)978-91-7729-322-4 (ISBN)
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2017-04-21, Air-and-Fire Lecture Hall, Tomtebodavägen 23a (Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm), Solna, 10:00 (Engelska)
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Yue Hu was supported by a scholarship from the China Scholarship Council (CSC #201206950024)

Yue Hu has been publishing papers under the name "Yue O. O. Hu".

QC 20170403

Tillgänglig från: 2017-04-03 Skapad: 2017-04-03 Senast uppdaterad: 2022-06-27Bibliografiskt granskad

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