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Cyanobacterial endobionts within a major marine planktonic calcifier (Globigerina bulloides, Foraminifera) revealed by 16S rRNA metabarcoding
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dc.contributor.author | Bird, Clare | |
dc.contributor.author | Darling, Kate F. | |
dc.contributor.author | Russell, Ann D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Davis, Catherine V. | |
dc.contributor.author | Fehrenbacher, Jennifer | |
dc.contributor.author | Free, Andrew | |
dc.contributor.author | Wyman, Michael | |
dc.contributor.author | Ngwenya, Bryne T. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-28T14:30:19Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-03-28T14:30:19Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-02-28 | |
dc.identifier | 249488746 | |
dc.identifier | 5e7fdc52-c82a-49dc-b142-273d95a2ebcd | |
dc.identifier | 000395179700001 | |
dc.identifier | 000395179700001 | |
dc.identifier | 85014284900 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Bird , C , Darling , K F , Russell , A D , Davis , C V , Fehrenbacher , J , Free , A , Wyman , M & Ngwenya , B T 2017 , ' Cyanobacterial endobionts within a major marine planktonic calcifier ( Globigerina bulloides , Foraminifera) revealed by 16S rRNA metabarcoding ' , Biogeosciences , vol. 14 , no. 4 , pp. 901-920 . https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-901-2017 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1726-4170 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/10545 | |
dc.description | Clare Bird is a Daphne Jackson Fellow sponsored by NERC and the University of Edinburgh via the Daphne Jackson Trust. This work was also supported by a NERC award to Michael Wyman (ref: NE/K015095/1). Field collections were supported by the NSF (grant number OCE-1261519). | en |
dc.description.abstract | We investigated the possibility of bacterial symbiosis in Globigerina bulloides, a palaeoceanographically important, planktonic foraminifer. This marine protist is commonly used in micropalaeontological investigations of climatically sensitive subpolar and temperate water masses as well as wind-driven upwelling regions of the world's oceans. G. bulloides is unusual because it lacks the protist algal symbionts that are often found in other spinose species. In addition, it has a large offset in its stable carbon and oxygen isotopic compositions compared to other planktonic foraminifer species, and also that predicted from seawater equilibrium. This is suggestive of novel differences in ecology and life history of G. bulloides, making it a good candidate for investigating the potential for bacterial symbiosis as a contributory factor influencing shell calcification. Such information is essential to evaluate fully the potential response of G. bulloides to ocean acidification and climate change. To investigate possible ecological interactions between G. bulloides and marine bacteria, 18S rRNA gene sequencing, fluorescence microscopy, 16S rRNA gene metabarcoding and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) were performed on individual specimens of G. bulloides (type IId) collected from two locations in the California Current. Intracellular DNA extracted from five G. bulloides specimens was subjected to 16S rRNA gene metabarcoding and, remarkably, 37-87% of all 16S rRNA gene sequences recovered were assigned to operational taxonomic units (OTUs) from the picocyanobacterium Synechococcus. This finding was supported by TEM observations of intact Synechococcus cells in both the cytoplasm and vacuoles of G. bulloides. Their concentrations were up to 4 orders of magnitude greater inside the foraminifera than those reported for the California Current water column and approximately 5% of the intracellular Synechococcus cells observed were undergoing cell division. This suggests that Synechococcus is an endobiont of G. bulloides type IId, which is the first report of a bacterial endobiont in the planktonic foraminifera. We consider the potential roles of Synechococcus and G. bulloides within the relationship and the need to determine how widespread the association is within the widely distributed G. bulloides morphospecies. The possible influence of Synechococcus respiration on G. bulloides shell geochemistry is also explored. | |
dc.format.extent | 20 | |
dc.format.extent | 4778426 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Biogeosciences | en |
dc.subject | QH301 Biology | en |
dc.subject | GE Environmental Sciences | en |
dc.subject | DAS | en |
dc.subject | SDG 13 - Climate Action | en |
dc.subject | SDG 14 - Life Below Water | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QH301 | en |
dc.subject.lcc | GE | en |
dc.title | Cyanobacterial endobionts within a major marine planktonic calcifier (Globigerina bulloides, Foraminifera) revealed by 16S rRNA metabarcoding | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Geography and Geosciences | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-901-2017 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
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