Discordance between resident and active bacterioplankton in free-living and particle-associated communities in estuary ecosystem

• Jia-Ling Li ^[1] ; Nimaichand Salam ^[1] ; Pan-Deng Wang ^[1] ; Lin-Xing Chen ^[1] ; Jian-Yu Jiao ^[1] ; Xin Li ^[1] ; Wen-Dong Xian ^[1] ; Ming-Xian Han ^[1] ; Bao-Zhu Fang ^[1] ; Xiao-Zhen Mou ^[2] ; Wen-Jun Li ^[1]
  1. [1] Sun Yat-sen University

     Sun Yat-sen University

     China

     
  2. [2] Kent State University

     Kent State University

     City of Kent, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Microbial ecology, ISSN-e 1432-184X, ISSN 0095-3628, Vol. 76, Nº. 3, 2018, págs. 637-647
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Bacterioplankton are the major driving force for biogeochemical cycles in estuarine ecosystems, but the communities that mediate these processes are largely unexplored. We sampled in the Pearl River Estuary (PRE) to examine potential differences in the taxonomic composition of resident (DNA-based) and active (RNA-based) bacterioplankton communities in free-living and particle-associated fractions. MiSeq sequencing data showed that the overall bacterial diversity in particle-associated fractions was higher than in free-living communities. Further in-depth analyses of the sequences revealed a positive correlation between resident and active bacterioplankton communities for the particle-associated fraction but not in the free-living fraction. However, a large overlapping of OTUs between free-living and particle-associated communities in PRE suggested that the two fractions may be actively exchanged. We also observed that the positive correlation between resident and active communities is more prominent among the abundant OTUs (relative abundance > 0.2%). Further, the results from the present study indicated that low-abundance bacterioplankton make an important contribution towards the metabolic activity in PRE.