10 results on '"Bathypelagic waters"'
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2. Unveiling the role and life strategies of viruses from the surface to the dark ocean
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Eva Teira, Guillem Salazar, Gian Marco Luna, Teresa S. Catalá, Carlos M. Duarte, Marta Estrada, Elisabet L. Sà, Encarna Borrull, Xosé Anxelu G. Morán, Dolors Vaqué, Yaiza Castillo, Josep M. Gasol, Massimo C. Pernice, Ramon Massana, Francisca C. García, Ana Gomes, Aida Peiró, Cristina Díez-Vives, Irene Forn, Elena Lara, Julia A. Boras, Susana Agustí, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), CSIC - Unidad de Recursos de Información Científica para la Investigación (URICI), and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
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0301 basic medicine ,genetic structures ,Mesopelagic zone ,Oceans and Seas ,viruses ,030106 microbiology ,Environmental Studies ,Deep sea ,Bathyal zone ,Carbon cycle ,03 medical and health sciences ,Soil ,Dissolved organic carbon ,Environmental Microbiology ,Marine ecosystem ,14. Life underwater ,Ecosystem ,Research Articles ,Analysis of Variance ,Multidisciplinary ,FLOW-CYTOMETRIC ENUMERATION ,DISSOLVED ORGANIC-MATTER ,WESTERN PACIFIC-OCEAN ,MARINE VIRUSES ,BATHYPELAGIC WATERS ,MEDITERRANEAN SEA ,VIRAL-INFECTION ,BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES ,CONVERSION FACTORS ,TIME-SERIES ,biology ,Geography ,Ecology ,fungi ,Marine Ecology ,SciAdv r-articles ,Pelagic zone ,Prokaryote ,Biodiversity ,biology.organism_classification ,030104 developmental biology ,13. Climate action ,geographic locations ,Virus Physiological Phenomena ,Research Article - Abstract
Lara, Elena ... et al.-- 12 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables, supplementary material http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2017/09/01/3.9.e1602565.DC1, Viruses are a key component of marine ecosystems, but the assessment of their global role in regulating microbial communities and the flux of carbon is precluded by a paucity of data, particularly in the deep ocean. We assessed patterns in viral abundance and production and the role of viral lysis as a driver of prokaryote mortality, from surface to bathypelagic layers, across the tropical and subtropical oceans. Viral abundance showed significant differences between oceans in the epipelagic and mesopelagic, but not in the bathypelagic, and decreased with depth, with an average power-law scaling exponent of −1.03 km−1 from an average of 7.76 × 106 viruses ml−1 in the epipelagic to 0.62 × 106 viruses ml−1 in the bathypelagic layer with an average integrated (0 to 4000 m) viral stock of about 0.004 to 0.044 g C m−2, half of which is found below 775 m. Lysogenic viral production was higher than lytic viral production in surface waters, whereas the opposite was found in the bathypelagic, where prokaryotic mortality due to viruses was estimated to be 60 times higher than grazing. Free viruses had turnover times of 0.1 days in the bathypelagic, revealing that viruses in the bathypelagic are highly dynamic. On the basis of the rates of lysed prokaryotic cells, we estimated that viruses release 145 Gt C year−1 in the global tropical and subtropical oceans. The active viral processes reported here demonstrate the importance of viruses in the production of dissolved organic carbon in the dark ocean, a major pathway in carbon cycling, This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through project Consolider-Ingenio Malaspina 2010 (CSD2008-00077) and funding received through grant FCS/1/2449-01-01 of the Office of Sponsored Research of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology., We acknowledge support by the CSIC Open Access Publication Initiative through its Unit of Information Resources for Research (URICI).
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3. Spatial patterns of bacterial and archaeal communities along the Romanche Fracture Zone (tropical Atlantic)
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(SUB)TROPICAL ATLANTIC ,Bacteria ,CATALYZED REPORTER DEPOSITION ,SAR202 BACTERIOPLANKTON ,IN-SITU HYBRIDIZATION ,PICOPLANKTON POPULATIONS ,Romanche Fracture Zone ,Thaumarchaeota ,prokaryotic communities ,NORTH-ATLANTIC ,MESOPELAGIC ZONE ,deep sea ,BACTERIOPLANKTON COMMUNITIES ,catalyzed reporter deposition-fluorescence in situ hybridization ,BATHYPELAGIC WATERS ,DEEP-WATER MASSES - Abstract
The composition of prokaryotic communities was determined in the meso- and bathypelagic waters funneled through the Romanche Fracture Zone (RFZ, 2 degrees 7'S, 31 degrees 79'W to 0 degrees 6'N, 14 degrees 33'W) in the tropical Atlantic. Distinct water masses were identified based on their physical and chemical characteristics. The bacterial and archaeal communities were depth-stratified with a total of 116 and 25 operational taxonomic units (OTUs), respectively, distributed among the distinct water masses as revealed by terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism, and cloning and sequencing. The relative abundance of Thaumarchaeota, determined by catalyzed reporter deposition-fluorescence in situ hybridization, was significantly higher in deeper layers (Antarctic Bottom Water, AABW, > 4000 m depth), contributing up to 31% to the total prokaryotic community, than in the mesopelagic and lower euphotic layer. Although the contribution of SAR11 to bacterial abundance did not increase with depth, SAR202, SAR324, SAR406 and Alteromonas did increase with depth. Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis revealed successional changes in the bacterial and archaeal community composition of the North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) with a passage time through the RFZ of c. 4 months but not in the under- and overlying water masses. Our results indicate that specific water masses harbor distinct bacterial and archaeal communities and that the prokaryotic community of the NADW undergoes successional changes in this conduit between the western and eastern Atlantic basin. Apparently, in the absence of major input of organic matter to specific deep-water masses, the indigenous prokaryotic community adapts to subtle physical and biogeochemical changes in the water mass within a time frame of weeks, similar to the reported seasonal changes in surface water prokaryotic communities.
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- 2013
4. Changes in viral and bacterial communities during the ice-melting season in the coastal Arctic (Kongsfjorden, Ny-Alesund)
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NUCLEIC-ACID CONTENT ,NORTH-SEA ,INDUCED DNA-DAMAGE ,UV-RADIATION ,FLOW-CYTOMETRY ,PROKARYOTIC COMMUNITIES ,CHESAPEAKE BAY VIRIOPLANKTON ,BACTERIOPLANKTON COMMUNITY ,BATHYPELAGIC WATERS ,MARINE-BACTERIA - Abstract
Microbial communities in Arctic coastal waters experience dramatic changes in environmental conditions during the spring to summer transition period, potentially leading to major variations in the relationship between viral and prokaryotic communities. To document these variations, a number of physico-chemical and biological parameters were determined during the ice-melting season in the coastal Arctic (Kongsfjorden, Ny-Alesund, Spitsbergen). The bacterial and viral abundance increased during the spring to summer transition period, probably associated to the increase in temperature and the development of a phytoplankton bloom. The increase in viral abundance was less pronounced than the increase in prokaryotic abundance; consequently, the viral to prokaryotic abundance ratio decreased. The bacterial and viral communities were stratified as determined by Automated Ribosomal Intergenic Spacer Analysis and Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA-PCR respectively. Both the bacterial and viral communities were characterized by a relatively low number of operational taxonomic units (OTUs). Despite the apparent low complexity of the bacterial and viral communities, the link between these two communities was weak over the melting season, as suggested by the different trends of prokaryotic and viral abundance during the sampling period. This weak relationship between the two communities might be explained by UV radiation and suspended particles differently affecting the viruses and prokaryotes in the coastal Arctic during this period. Based on our results, we conclude that the viral and bacterial communities in the Arctic were strongly affected by the variability of the environmental conditions during the transition period between spring and summer.
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- 2011
5. Links between viral and prokaryotic communities throughout the water column in the (sub)tropical Atlantic Ocean
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Taichi Yokokawa, Christian Winter, Eva Sintes, Daniele De Corte, Thomas Reinthaler, Gerhard J. Herndl, and Van Elsas lab
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DNA, Bacterial ,MARINE VIRUSES ,POPULATION-DYNAMICS ,Genotype ,Ribosomal Intergenic Spacer analysis ,Biology ,Microbiology ,Deep sea ,prokaryotes ,FRAGMENT-LENGTH-POLYMORPHISM ,Water column ,Marine bacteriophage ,Microbial ecology ,Abundance (ecology) ,Cluster Analysis ,Seawater ,viruses ,Atlantic Ocean ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Tropical Climate ,Polymorphism, Genetic ,Bacteria ,Ecology ,Geomicrobiology ,romanche fracture zone ,Pelagic zone ,Biodiversity ,INTERGENIC SPACER ANALYSIS ,Viral Load ,Archaea ,DNA Fingerprinting ,DILUTION TECHNIQUE ,Bacterial Load ,Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique ,DNA, Archaeal ,deep sea ,DNA, Viral ,Metagenome ,CHESAPEAKE BAY VIRIOPLANKTON ,BACTERIAL COMMUNITIES ,BATHYPELAGIC WATERS ,atlantic ,Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length ,EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA ,MICROBIAL DIVERSITY - Abstract
Viral and prokaryotic abundance, production and diversity were determined throughout the water column of the subtropical Atlantic Ocean to assess potential variations in the relation between viruses and prokaryotes. Prokaryotic abundance and heterotrophic activity decreased by one and three orders of magnitude, respectively, from the epi- to the abyssopelagic layer. Although the lytic viral production (VP) decreased with depth, lysogenic VP was variable throughout the water column and did not show any trend with depth. The bacterial, archaeal and viral community composition were depth-stratified as determined by the automated ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis, terminal-restriction fragment length polymorphism and randomly amplified polymorphic DNA-PCR, respectively. Generally, the number of operational taxonomic units (OTUs) did not reveal consistent trends throughout the water column. Viral and prokaryotic abundance were strongly related to heterotrophic prokaryotic production, suggesting similar linkage strength between the viral and prokaryotic communities from the lower epi- to the abyssopelagic layer in the Atlantic Ocean. Strikingly, the prokaryotic and viral parameters exhibited a similar variability throughout the water column down to the abyssopelagic layers, suggesting that the dark ocean is as dynamic a system as is the lower epipelagic layer. It also indicates that viruses are apparently having a similar role for prokaryotic mortality in the dark oceanic realm as in surface waters. The more than twofold increase in bacterial OTUs from 2750m depth to >5000 m depth and the concurrent decrease in viral OTUs, however, suggests that viruses might exhibit a wider host range in deep waters than in surface waters. The ISME Journal (2010) 4, 1431-1442; doi: 10.1038/ISMEJ.2010.65; published online 20 May 2010
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- 2010
6. Pressure effects on surface Mediterranean prokaryotes and biogenic silica dissolution during a diatom sinking experiment
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David L. Kirchman, Peggy Rimmelin, Karine Leblanc, Christian Tamburini, Jean Garcin, Gérald Grégori, Laboratoire de MicrobiologiE de Géochimie et d'Ecologie Marines (LMGEM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2, Laboratoire d'océanographie et de biogéochimie (LOB), Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), College of Marine Studies (CMS), University of Delaware [Newark], and Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille 2-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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0106 biological sciences ,Particle sinking ,Hydrostatic pressure ,Aquatic Science ,Biogenic silica ,Biology ,01 natural sciences ,Prokaryotic diversity ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Mediterranean sea ,Water column ,Decomposition processes ,Botany ,14. Life underwater ,Silicic acid ,Dissolution ,[SDU.STU.OC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Oceanography ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,030304 developmental biology ,0303 health sciences ,Atmospheric pressure ,010604 marine biology & hydrobiology ,Bathypelagic waters ,biology.organism_classification ,Diatom ,chemistry ,Environmental chemistry ,Mesopelagic waters ,Silica dissolution ,Ectoenzymatic activity - Abstract
International audience; This study examined the effect of increasing pressure on biogenic silica dissolution and on prokaryotic assemblages associated with diatom detritus. Experiments were carried out in hyperbaric bottles subjected to a gradual increase in pressure and compared to incubations at atmospheric pressure. To examine only pressure effects and to simulate detritus degradation in the Mediterranean Sea, the incubation temperature was kept constant (13°C), while pressure was increased by 1.5 MPa d-1, simulating a fall of particles at a sinking rate of 150 m d-1 over 8 d. Aminopeptidase activity was significantly lower (nearly 5-fold) under increasing pressure than under atmospheric pressure conditions. Lower aminopeptidase activity under increasing pressure affected biogenic silica dissolution, at least at the beginning of the incubation, corresponding to a simulated depth of the first 800 m of the water column. Silicic acid regeneration rates were very low (0.07 ± 0.02 μmol l-1 h-1) under increasing pressure conditions during the first 4 d (i.e. between 200 and 800 m), while rates were much higher under atmospheric pressure (0.32 ± 0.05 μmol l-1 h-1). However, orthosilicic acid concentrations in the incubations under increasing pressure approached those of the atmospheric pressure incubations by the end of the experiment. In contrast, the taxonomic composition of prokaryotic communities was not affected by increasing pressure, but the input of fresh diatom detritus led to an increase in the relative abundance of the Cytophago-Flavobacter cluster and γ-Proteobacteria. These results suggest that hydrostatic pressure affects the function rather than the broad taxonomic structure of prokaryotic communities associated with sinking detrital particles.
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- 2006
7. Spatial patterns of bacterial and archaeal communities along the Romanche Fracture Zone (tropical Atlantic)
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Lekunberri, Itziar, Sintes, Eva, Corte, Daniele, Yokokawa, Taichi, and Herndl, Gerhard J
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(SUB)TROPICAL ATLANTIC ,Tropical Climate ,Bacteria ,CATALYZED REPORTER DEPOSITION ,SAR202 BACTERIOPLANKTON ,IN-SITU HYBRIDIZATION ,Archaea ,PICOPLANKTON POPULATIONS ,Romanche Fracture Zone ,Thaumarchaeota ,prokaryotic communities ,NORTH-ATLANTIC ,MESOPELAGIC ZONE ,deep sea ,BACTERIOPLANKTON COMMUNITIES ,Seawater ,catalyzed reporter deposition-fluorescence in situ hybridization ,BATHYPELAGIC WATERS ,Atlantic Ocean ,Research Articles ,In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence ,Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length ,DEEP-WATER MASSES - Abstract
The composition of prokaryotic communities was determined in the meso- and bathypelagic waters funneled through the Romanche Fracture Zone (RFZ, 2 degrees 7'S, 31 degrees 79'W to 0 degrees 6'N, 14 degrees 33'W) in the tropical Atlantic. Distinct water masses were identified based on their physical and chemical characteristics. The bacterial and archaeal communities were depth-stratified with a total of 116 and 25 operational taxonomic units (OTUs), respectively, distributed among the distinct water masses as revealed by terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism, and cloning and sequencing. The relative abundance of Thaumarchaeota, determined by catalyzed reporter deposition-fluorescence in situ hybridization, was significantly higher in deeper layers (Antarctic Bottom Water, AABW, > 4000 m depth), contributing up to 31% to the total prokaryotic community, than in the mesopelagic and lower euphotic layer. Although the contribution of SAR11 to bacterial abundance did not increase with depth, SAR202, SAR324, SAR406 and Alteromonas did increase with depth. Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis revealed successional changes in the bacterial and archaeal community composition of the North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) with a passage time through the RFZ of c. 4 months but not in the under- and overlying water masses. Our results indicate that specific water masses harbor distinct bacterial and archaeal communities and that the prokaryotic community of the NADW undergoes successional changes in this conduit between the western and eastern Atlantic basin. Apparently, in the absence of major input of organic matter to specific deep-water masses, the indigenous prokaryotic community adapts to subtle physical and biogeochemical changes in the water mass within a time frame of weeks, similar to the reported seasonal changes in surface water prokaryotic communities.
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- 2013
8. Links between viruses and prokaryotes throughout the water column along a North Atlantic latitudinal transect
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Gerhard J. Herndl, Taichi Yokokawa, Eva Sintes, Thomas Reinthaler, Daniele De Corte, and Van Elsas lab
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North Atlantic Ocean ,DISTML ,viruses ,VIRAL PRODUCTION ,Environment ,Biology ,Bacterial Physiological Phenomena ,virus-like particles ,Microbiology ,Bathyal zone ,prokaryotes ,03 medical and health sciences ,Water column ,Leucine ,Abundance (ecology) ,Ocean gyre ,BACTERIAL-GROWTH RATE ,Phytoplankton ,Seawater ,Marine ecosystem ,14. Life underwater ,bacteria ,Transect ,Atlantic Ocean ,Lysogeny ,Ecosystem ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,030304 developmental biology ,Population Density ,0303 health sciences ,geography ,SEA ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,Bacteria ,030306 microbiology ,Ecology ,flow cytometry ,FLOW-CYTOMETRY ,Pelagic zone ,DILUTION TECHNIQUE ,ORGANIC-MATTER ,PROPHAGE INDUCTION ,Original Article ,LYTIC PHAGE PRODUCTION ,BATHYPELAGIC WATERS ,COASTAL WATERS ,Virus Physiological Phenomena - Abstract
Viruses are an abundant, diverse and dynamic component of marine ecosystems and have a key role in the biogeochemical processes of the ocean by controlling prokaryotic and phytoplankton abundance and diversity. However, most of the studies on virus-prokaryote interactions in marine environments have been performed in nearshore waters. To assess potential variations in the relation between viruses and prokaryotes in different oceanographic provinces, we determined viral and prokaryotic abundance and production throughout the water column along a latitudinal transect in the North Atlantic. Depth-related trends in prokaryotic and viral abundance (both decreasing by one order of magnitude from epi- to abyssopelagic waters), and prokaryotic production (decreasing by three orders of magnitude) were observed along the latitudinal transect. The virus-to-prokaryote ratio (VPR) increased from similar to 19 in epipelagic to similar to 53 in the bathy- and abyssopelagic waters. Although the lytic viral production decreased significantly with depth, the lysogenic viral production did not vary with depth. In bathypelagic waters, pronounced differences in prokaryotic and viral abundance were found among different oceanic provinces with lower leucine incorporation rates and higher VPRs in the North Atlantic Gyre province than in the provinces further north and south. The percentage of lysogeny increased from subpolar regions toward the more oligotrophic lower latitudes. Based on the observed trends over this latitudinal transect, we conclude that the viral-host interactions significantly change among different oceanic provinces in response to changes in the biotic and abiotic variables. The ISME Journal (2012) 6, 1566-1577; doi:10.1038/ismej.2011.214; published online 19 January 2012
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- 2012
9. Changes in viral and bacterial communities during the ice-melting season in the coastal Arctic (Kongsfjorden, Ny-Alesund)
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De Corte, Daniele, Sintes, Eva, Yokokawa, Taichi, Herndl, Gerhard J., and Van Elsas lab
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NUCLEIC-ACID CONTENT ,NORTH-SEA ,INDUCED DNA-DAMAGE ,UV-RADIATION ,FLOW-CYTOMETRY ,PROKARYOTIC COMMUNITIES ,CHESAPEAKE BAY VIRIOPLANKTON ,BACTERIOPLANKTON COMMUNITY ,BATHYPELAGIC WATERS ,MARINE-BACTERIA - Abstract
Microbial communities in Arctic coastal waters experience dramatic changes in environmental conditions during the spring to summer transition period, potentially leading to major variations in the relationship between viral and prokaryotic communities. To document these variations, a number of physico-chemical and biological parameters were determined during the ice-melting season in the coastal Arctic (Kongsfjorden, Ny-Alesund, Spitsbergen). The bacterial and viral abundance increased during the spring to summer transition period, probably associated to the increase in temperature and the development of a phytoplankton bloom. The increase in viral abundance was less pronounced than the increase in prokaryotic abundance; consequently, the viral to prokaryotic abundance ratio decreased. The bacterial and viral communities were stratified as determined by Automated Ribosomal Intergenic Spacer Analysis and Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA-PCR respectively. Both the bacterial and viral communities were characterized by a relatively low number of operational taxonomic units (OTUs). Despite the apparent low complexity of the bacterial and viral communities, the link between these two communities was weak over the melting season, as suggested by the different trends of prokaryotic and viral abundance during the sampling period. This weak relationship between the two communities might be explained by UV radiation and suspended particles differently affecting the viruses and prokaryotes in the coastal Arctic during this period. Based on our results, we conclude that the viral and bacterial communities in the Arctic were strongly affected by the variability of the environmental conditions during the transition period between spring and summer.
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- 2011
10. Disentangling the impact of viruses and nanoflagellates on prokaryotes in bathypelagic waters of the Mediterranean Sea
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Mirko Magagnini, Roberto Danovaro, F. Focaracci, E. Malisana, Cinzia Corinaldesi, S. Fonda Umani, Fonda, Serena, Malisana, E, Focaracci, F, Magagnini, M, Corinaldesi, C, and Danovaro, R.
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Virioplankton ,Biomass (ecology) ,Ecology ,Heterotrophic Nanoplankton ,Heterotroph ,Aquatic Science ,Plankton ,Biology ,Bathypelagic waters ,Bathyal zone ,Bathypelagic water ,Predation ,Mediterranean sea ,Abundance (ecology) ,Prokaryote ,Microzooplankton ,Mediterranean Sea ,Prokaryotes ,Ecosystem ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics - Abstract
Bathypelagic ecosystems depend on prokaryotic heterotrophic biomass fuelled by vertical particulate organic matter (POM) fluxes, but very little information is available on the interactions among viruses, prokaryotes and nanoflagellates in deep waters. We simultaneously investigated the relative importance of the viral and heterotrophic nanoflagellate (HNF) grazing-induced prokaryotic mortality in bathypelagic waters by means of dilution experiments performed on samples collected at 1500 m depth from the Atlantic Ocean to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Prokaryotic abundance (range: 1.4 to 8.9 × 104 cells ml–1), although different from one station to another, was on average not significantly different among biogeographic regions. The potential predators of prokaryotes (viruses, HNF and microzooplankton) followed a similar spatial pattern. Viruses were responsible for an important fraction of prokaryotic mortality (on average 13.4% d–1). Dilution experiments carried out to estimate the potential predation of HNF suggested a high effect on prokaryotic abundance. However, since the latter experiments also include the effect of viruses on prokaryotes, when this factor was disentangled from the overall mortality, the potential rates of HNF predation on prokaryotes (on average 49.5%) were ca. 4 times higher than the effect due to viral infections. Conversely to patterns of distribution, the relative importance of virus-mediated mortality vs. HNF predation changed significantly among different regions. Results should be treated with caution due to the intrinsic difficulty in reproducing experimentally natural deep-sea conditions, but they permit disentangling of the relative effect of viruses and HNF on prokaryotes and compare the potential predatory control in different biogeographic regions.
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- 2010
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