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SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 45, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2022.126320
Keywords
Meromictic lake; Sulfate-reducing bacteria; Sulfur-oxidizing bacteria; Methanogenic archaea; Methane-oxidizing bacteria; Meromictic lake; Sulfate-reducing bacteria; Sulfur-oxidizing bacteria; Methanogenic archaea; Methane-oxidizing bacteria
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- Joint Research Program of the Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University [21G014]
- JSPS KAKENHI [22370005, 24870001]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24870001] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Lake Harutori is a brackish meromictic lake with a steep gradient in shallow water. This study investigated the microbial community structure at different depths of the lake using 16S rRNA gene sequencing and CARD-FISH. The results revealed the presence of methanotrophic and sulfur-oxidizing bacteria populations, as well as methanogenic archaea in the deep water layer. Additionally, several uncultured bacterial groups were identified.
Lake Harutori is a brackish meromictic lake with a steep physicochemical gradient in shallow water. Anoxic water below the chemocline has been characterized by high concentrations of sulfide (>10 mM) and methane (>1.5 mM). Previously, we reported that uncultured bacteria in the SEEP-SRB1 group were major sulfate reducers in the lake [21], but knowledge of sulfur oxidation and methane metabolism was scarce. In this current study, the Lake Harutori microbial community structure in the mixolimnion (at depths of 1.5 m and 3.0 m), upper chemocline (3.5 m), and monimolimnion (4.5 m) was further investigated by 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing and catalyzed reporter deposition fluorescence in situ hybridization (CARD-FISH). Reads of type I and II methanotrophs were retrieved mainly from 3.5 m and above. Methanotrophic bacteria detected by CARD-FISH accounted for 3.1% of DAPI-stained cells at 3.5 m. Detection frequencies of reads affiliated with the genera Sulfurimonas and Thiomicrorhabdus, which are known to comprise sulfur oxidizers, were relatively high at 3.5 m. Methanogenic archaeal reads were retrieved from the monimolimnion and they affiliated with the genus Methanosaeta. CARD-FISH counts indicated that the cells of Methanosaeta/Methanosarcina/ Methanomicrobiales accounted for up to 0.8% of the DAPI-stained cells in the monimolimnion. On the other hand, many of the reads retrieved primarily from the monimolimnion were affiliated with phylogenetically novel uncultured groups.(c) 2022 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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