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Article Dans Une Revue Aquatic Microbial Ecology Année : 2015

Temporal Dynamics of Active Prokaryotic Nitrifiers and Archaeal Communities from River to Sea

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To test if different niches for potential nitrifiers exist in estuarine systems, we assessed by pyrosequencing the diversity of archaeal gene transcript markers for taxonomy (16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA)) during an entire year along a salinity gradient in surface waters of the Charente estuary (Atlantic coast, France). We further investigated the potential for estuarine prokaryotes to oxidize ammonia and hydrolyze urea by quantifying thaumarchaeal amoA and ureC and bacterial amoA transcripts. Our results showed a succession of different nitrifiers from river to sea with bacterial amoA transcripts dominating in the freshwater station while archaeal transcripts were predominant in the marine station. The 16S rRNA sequence analysis revealed that Thaumarchaeota marine group I (MGI) were the most abundant overall but other archaeal groups like Methanosaeta were also potentially active in winter (December–March) and Euryarchaeota marine group II (MGII) were dominant in seawater in summer (April–August). Each station also contained different Thaumarchaeota MGI phylogenetic clusters, and the clusters' microdiversity was associated to specific environmental conditions suggesting the presence of ecotypes adapted to distinct ecological niches. The amoA and ureC transcript dynamics further indicated that some of the Thaumarchaeota MGI sub-clusters were involved in ammonia oxidation through the hy-drolysis of urea. Our findings show that ammonia-oxidizing Archaea and Bacteria were adapted to contrasted conditions and that the Thaumarchaeota MGI diversity probably corresponds to distinct metabolisms or life strategies.
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hal-01354835 , version 1 (22-08-2016)

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Mylène Hugoni, Hélène Agogué, Najwa Taib, Isabelle Domaizon, Anne Moné, et al.. Temporal Dynamics of Active Prokaryotic Nitrifiers and Archaeal Communities from River to Sea. Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 2015, 70 (2), pp.473-483. ⟨10.1007/s00248-015-0601-z⟩. ⟨hal-01354835⟩
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