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Katarina Hedlund. Foto.

Katarina Hedlund

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Katarina Hedlund. Foto.

Contrasting prevalence of selection and drift in the community structuring of bacteria and microbial eukaryotes

Författare

  • Ramiro Logares
  • Sylvie V.M. Tesson
  • Björn Canbäck
  • Mikael Pontarp
  • Katarina Hedlund
  • Karin Rengefors

Summary, in English

Whether or not communities of microbial eukaryotes are structured in the same way as bacteria is a general and poorly explored question in ecology. Here, we investigated this question in a set of planktonic lake microbiotas in Eastern Antarctica that represent a natural community ecology experiment. Most of the analysed lakes emerged from the sea during the last 6000 years, giving rise to waterbodies that originally contained marine microbiotas and that subsequently evolved into habitats ranging from freshwater to hypersaline. We show that habitat diversification has promoted selection driven by the salinity gradient in bacterial communities (explaining ∼ 72% of taxa turnover), while microeukaryotic counterparts were predominantly structured by ecological drift (∼72% of the turnover). Nevertheless, we also detected a number of microeukaryotes with specific responses to salinity, indicating that albeit minor, selection has had a role in the structuring of specific members of their communities. In sum, we conclude that microeukaryotes and bacteria inhabiting the same communities can be structured predominantly by different processes. This should be considered in future studies aiming to understand the mechanisms that shape microbial assemblages.

Avdelning/ar

  • Enhet akvatisk ekologi
  • Molekylär ekologi och evolution
  • Molekylär cellbiologi
  • Evolutionär ekologi
  • Biodiversitet
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • Akvatisk ekologi
  • Teoretisk populationsekologi och evolution

Publiceringsår

2018-06-01

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

2231-2240

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Environmental Microbiology

Volym

20

Issue

6

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Wiley-Blackwell

Ämne

  • Ecology

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Molecular Ecology and Evolution Lab
  • Aquatic Ecology
  • Theoretical Population Ecology and Evolution Group

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1462-2912