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Global distribution and diversity of marine Verrucomicrobia

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Freitas, Sara, Hatosy, Stephen, Fuhrman, Jed A, Huse, Susan M, Mark Welch, David B, Sogin, Mitchell L, Martiny, Adam C·2012·The ISME Journal

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Verrucomicrobia is a bacterial phylum that is commonly detected in soil, but little is known about the distribution and diversity of this phylum in the marine environment. To address this, we analyzed the marine microbial community composition in 506 samples from the International Census of Marine Microbes as well as 11 coastal samples taken from the California Current. These samples from both the water column and sediments covered a wide range of environmental conditions. Verrucomicrobia were present in 98% of the analyzed samples, and thus appeared nearly ubiquitous in the ocean. Based on the occurrence of amplified 16S ribosomal RNA sequences, Verrucomicrobia constituted on average 2% of the water column and 1.4% of the sediment bacterial communities. The diversity of Verrucomicrobia displayed a biogeography at multiple taxonomic levels and thus, specific lineages appeared to have clear habitat preference. We found that subdivision 1 and 4 generally dominated marine bacterial communities, whereas subdivision 2 was more frequent in low salinity waters. Within the subdivisions, Verrucomicrobia community composition were significantly different in the water column compared with sediment as well as within the water column along gradients of salinity, temperature, nitrate, depth and overall water column depth. Although we still know little about the ecophysiology of Verrucomicrobia lineages, the ubiquity of this phylum suggests that it may be important for the biogeochemical cycle of carbon in the ocean.

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Authors
Freitas, S., Hatosy, S., Fuhrman, J. A., Huse, S. M., Mark Welch, D. B., Sogin, M. L., & Martiny, A. C.
Affiliations
  • University of California, Irvine (US)
  • University of Southern California (US)
  • Marine Biological Laboratory (US)
  • Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory , Woods Hole, MA , USA
Corresponding author
Martiny, Adam C
Venue
The ISME Journal
Published
2012-02-09
Volume
6
Issue
8
Pages
1499-1505
ISSN
  • 1751-7362 (ISSN-L)
  • 1751-7370
OpenAlex
W2152216029
Cited by
236
References
38
Citations by year
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FWCI
8.79
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • The ISME Journal (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Open Access Server of the Woods Hole Scientific Community (Woods Hole Scientific Community) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation (0928544, 1046297)
  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Keywords
Verrucomicrobia, marine bacteria, bacterial biogeography, marine microbial communities, marine sediment, water column, 16S rRNA, bacterial diversity, salinity gradient, carbon cycle, California Current
MeSH terms
Nitrates, Pacific Ocean, RNA, Ribosomal, 16S, Temperature, Water Microbiology, Ecosystem, Geologic Sediments, Biodiversity, Salinity, Verrucomicrobia

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