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Título: | Metatranscriptomes reveal functional variation in diatom communities from the Antarctic Peninsula |
Autor: | Pearson, Gareth Lago-Lestón, Asunción Canovas, Fernando Cox, C. J. Verret, Frédéric Lasternas, Sebastian Duarte, Carlos M. Agusti, Susana Serrao, Ester A. |
Palavras-chave: | Thalassiosira-pseudonana bacillariophyceae Photosynthetic energy-conversion Sea-ice diatoms Phaeodactylum-tricornutum Southern-ocean Phytoplankton biomass Marine-phytoplankton Pelagic ecosystems Extreme conditions Protein-synthesis |
Data: | Out-2015 |
Editora: | International Society for Microbial Ecology |
Resumo: | Functional genomics of diatom-dominated communities from the Antarctic Peninsula was studied using comparative metatranscriptomics. Samples obtained from diatom-rich communities in the Bransfield Strait, the western Weddell Sea and sea ice in the Bellingshausen Sea/Wilkins Ice Shelf yielded more than 500K pyrosequencing reads that were combined to produce a global metatranscriptome assembly. Multi-gene phylogenies recovered three distinct communities, and diatom-assigned contigs further indicated little read-sharing between communities, validating an assembly-based annotation and analysis approach. Although functional analysis recovered a core of abundant shared annotations that were expressed across the three diatom communities, over 40% of annotations (but accounting for <10% of sequences) were community-specific. The two pelagic communities differed in their expression of N-metabolism and acquisition genes, which was almost absent in post-bloom conditions in the Weddell Sea community, while enrichment of transporters for ammonia and urea in Bransfield Strait diatoms suggests a physiological stance towards acquisition of reduced N-sources. The depletion of carbohydrate and energy metabolism pathways in sea ice relative to pelagic communities, together with increased light energy dissipation (via LHCSR proteins), photorespiration, and NO3 uptake and utilization all pointed to irradiance stress and/or inorganic carbon limitation within sea ice. Ice-binding proteins and cold-shock transcription factors were also enriched in sea ice diatoms. Surprisingly, the abundance of gene transcripts for the translational machinery tracked decreasing environmental temperature across only a 4 degrees C range, possibly reflecting constraints on translational efficiency and protein production in cold environments. |
Peer review: | yes |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/11838 |
DOI: | 10.1038/ismej.2015.40 |
ISSN: | 1751-7362 1751-7370 |
Aparece nas colecções: | CCM2-Artigos (em revistas ou actas indexadas) |
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