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Biogeography of Planktonic and Benthic Archaeal Communities in a Subtropical Eutrophic Estuary of China

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Mounting evidence suggests that Archaea are widespread and abundant in aquatic and terrestrial habitats and play fundamental roles in global biogeochemical cycles, yet the pattern and its ecological drivers of biogeographic distribution of archaeal community in estuarine ecosystem are still not well understood. Here, we investigated planktonic and benthic archaeal communities in the human-impacted Jiulong River estuary (JRE), southern China by using real-time PCR (RT-PCR) and Illumina 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) amplicon sequencing. RT-PCR analysis indicated that Archaea accounted for an average of 0.79 and 5.31 % of prokaryotic biomass in water and sediment samples of the JRE, respectively. The diversity of planktonic archaeal community decreased gradually from the river runoff to seawater, whereas that of benthic community did not show the similar pattern. The results of taxonomic assignments indicated that Thaumarchaeota (Nitrosopumilus and Cenarchaeum), Methanocorpusculum, and Methanospirillum were significantly more abundant in planktonic than benthic communities, whereas the relative abundances of Miscellaneous Crenarchaeotic Group, Marine Benthic Group-B/-D, anaerobic methane-oxidizing Archaea -1/-2D, and South Africa Gold Mine Euryarchaeotic Group 1 were higher in sediments than in surface waters. Moreover, planktonic archaeal community composition varied significantly at broad and finer-scale taxonomic levels along the salinity gradient. Multivariate statistical analyses revealed that salinity is the main factor structuring the JRE planktonic but not benthic archaeal community at both total community and population level. SourceTrakcer analysis indicated that river might be a major source of archaea in the freshwater zone of the JRE. Overall, this study advances our understanding of the biogeographic patterns and its ecological drivers of estuarine archaeal communities.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Dr. Weidong Zhai and Ms. Xiuli Yan for providing physicochemical parameters of surface waters of the Jiulong River estuary and Mr. Jibing He and Mr. Jiajun Hong for assistance in collecting the samples. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41106096), the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IUEQN201307), Science and Technology Planning Project of Xiamen, China (3502Z20142021), and Natural Science Foundation of Ningbo, China (2013A610174, 2012C5011).

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Hu, A., Hou, L. & Yu, CP. Biogeography of Planktonic and Benthic Archaeal Communities in a Subtropical Eutrophic Estuary of China. Microb Ecol 70, 322–335 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-015-0597-4

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