Archaea Appear to Dominate the Microbiome of Inflatella pellicula Deep Sea Sponges

Microbes associated with marine sponges play significant roles in host physiology. Remarkable levels of microbial diversity have been observed in sponges worldwide through both culture-dependent and culture-independent studies. Most studies have focused on the structure of the bacterial communities...

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Main Authors: Jackson, Stephen, Flemer, Burkhardt, McCann, Angela, Kennedy, Jonathan, Morrissey, John, O'Gara, Fergal, Dobson, Alan
Format: Journal Article
Published: Public Library of Science 2013
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26815
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author Jackson, Stephen
Flemer, Burkhardt
McCann, Angela
Kennedy, Jonathan
Morrissey, John
O'Gara, Fergal
Dobson, Alan
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McCann, Angela
Kennedy, Jonathan
Morrissey, John
O'Gara, Fergal
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description Microbes associated with marine sponges play significant roles in host physiology. Remarkable levels of microbial diversity have been observed in sponges worldwide through both culture-dependent and culture-independent studies. Most studies have focused on the structure of the bacterial communities in sponges and have involved sponges sampled from shallow waters. Here, we used pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA genes to compare the bacterial and archaeal communities associated with two individuals of the marine sponge Inflatella pellicula from the deep-sea, sampled from a depth of 2,900 m, a depth which far exceeds any previous sequence-based report of sponge-associated microbial communities. Sponge-microbial communities were also compared to the microbial community in the surrounding seawater. Sponge-associated microbial communities were dominated by archaeal sequencing reads with a single archaeal OTU, comprising ~60% and ~72% of sequences, being observed from Inflatella pellicula. Archaeal sequencing reads were less abundant in seawater (~11% of sequences). Sponge-associated microbial communities were less diverse and less even than any other sponge-microbial community investigated to date with just 210 and 273 OTUs (97% sequence identity) identified in sponges, with 4 and 6 dominant OTUs comprising ~88% and ~89% of sequences, respectively. Members of the candidate phyla, SAR406, NC10 and ZB3 are reported here from sponges for the first time, increasing the number of bacterial phyla or candidate divisions associated with sponges to 43. A minor cohort from both sponge samples (~0.2% and ~0.3% of sequences) were not classified to phylum level. A single OTU, common to both sponge individuals, dominates these unclassified reads and shares sequence homology with a sponge associated clone which itself has no known close relative and may represent a novel taxon.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-268152017-09-13T15:28:48Z Archaea Appear to Dominate the Microbiome of Inflatella pellicula Deep Sea Sponges Jackson, Stephen Flemer, Burkhardt McCann, Angela Kennedy, Jonathan Morrissey, John O'Gara, Fergal Dobson, Alan Microbes associated with marine sponges play significant roles in host physiology. Remarkable levels of microbial diversity have been observed in sponges worldwide through both culture-dependent and culture-independent studies. Most studies have focused on the structure of the bacterial communities in sponges and have involved sponges sampled from shallow waters. Here, we used pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA genes to compare the bacterial and archaeal communities associated with two individuals of the marine sponge Inflatella pellicula from the deep-sea, sampled from a depth of 2,900 m, a depth which far exceeds any previous sequence-based report of sponge-associated microbial communities. Sponge-microbial communities were also compared to the microbial community in the surrounding seawater. Sponge-associated microbial communities were dominated by archaeal sequencing reads with a single archaeal OTU, comprising ~60% and ~72% of sequences, being observed from Inflatella pellicula. Archaeal sequencing reads were less abundant in seawater (~11% of sequences). Sponge-associated microbial communities were less diverse and less even than any other sponge-microbial community investigated to date with just 210 and 273 OTUs (97% sequence identity) identified in sponges, with 4 and 6 dominant OTUs comprising ~88% and ~89% of sequences, respectively. Members of the candidate phyla, SAR406, NC10 and ZB3 are reported here from sponges for the first time, increasing the number of bacterial phyla or candidate divisions associated with sponges to 43. A minor cohort from both sponge samples (~0.2% and ~0.3% of sequences) were not classified to phylum level. A single OTU, common to both sponge individuals, dominates these unclassified reads and shares sequence homology with a sponge associated clone which itself has no known close relative and may represent a novel taxon. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26815 10.1371/journal.pone.0084438 Public Library of Science unknown
spellingShingle Jackson, Stephen
Flemer, Burkhardt
McCann, Angela
Kennedy, Jonathan
Morrissey, John
O'Gara, Fergal
Dobson, Alan
Archaea Appear to Dominate the Microbiome of Inflatella pellicula Deep Sea Sponges
title Archaea Appear to Dominate the Microbiome of Inflatella pellicula Deep Sea Sponges
title_full Archaea Appear to Dominate the Microbiome of Inflatella pellicula Deep Sea Sponges
title_fullStr Archaea Appear to Dominate the Microbiome of Inflatella pellicula Deep Sea Sponges
title_full_unstemmed Archaea Appear to Dominate the Microbiome of Inflatella pellicula Deep Sea Sponges
title_short Archaea Appear to Dominate the Microbiome of Inflatella pellicula Deep Sea Sponges
title_sort archaea appear to dominate the microbiome of inflatella pellicula deep sea sponges
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26815