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ISME JOURNAL
Volume 6, Issue 2, Pages 330-342Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2011.113
Keywords
freshwater; 454 pyrosequencing; 16S rRNA; phylogenetic tribes; bacteria
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- Swedish Research Council
- Knut and Alice Wallenberg foundation
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Bacteria have important roles in freshwater food webs and in the cycling of elements in the ecosystem. Yet specific ecological features of individual phylogenetic groups and interactions among these are largely unknown. We used 454 pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA genes to study associations of different bacterioplankton groups to environmental characteristics and their co-occurrence patterns over an annual cycle in a dimictic lake. Clear seasonal succession of the bacterioplankton community was observed. After binning of sequences into previously described and highly resolved phylogenetic groups (tribes), their temporal dynamics revealed extensive synchrony and associations with seasonal events such as ice coverage, ice-off, mixing and phytoplankton blooms. Coupling between closely and distantly related tribes was resolved by time-dependent rank correlations, suggesting ecological coherence that was often dependent on taxonomic relatedness. Association networks with the abundant freshwater Actinobacteria and Proteobacteria in focus revealed complex interdependencies within bacterioplankton communities and contrasting linkages to environmental conditions. Accordingly, unique ecological features can be inferred for each tribe and reveal the natural history of abundant cultured and uncultured freshwater bacteria. The ISME Journal (2012) 6, 330-342; doi: 10.1038/ismej.2011.113; published online 1 September 2011
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