Inter- and intra-habitat bacterial diversity associated with cold-water corals
Abstract The discovery of large ecosystems of cold-water corals (CWC), stretching along continental margins in depths of hundreds to thousands of meters, has raised many questions regarding their ecology, biodiversity and relevance as deep-sea hard-ground habitat. This study represents the first inv...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1038/ismej.2009.15 2024-06-23T07:54:29+00:00 Inter- and intra-habitat bacterial diversity associated with cold-water corals Schöttner, Sandra Hoffmann, Friederike Wild, Christian Rapp, Hans Tore Boetius, Antje Ramette, Alban 2009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2009.15 http://www.nature.com/articles/ismej200915.pdf http://www.nature.com/articles/ismej200915 https://academic.oup.com/ismej/article-pdf/3/6/756/56443759/41396_2009_article_bfismej200915.pdf en eng Oxford University Press (OUP) https://academic.oup.com/pages/standard-publication-reuse-rights The ISME Journal volume 3, issue 6, page 756-759 ISSN 1751-7362 1751-7370 journal-article 2009 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2009.15 2024-06-11T04:20:03Z Abstract The discovery of large ecosystems of cold-water corals (CWC), stretching along continental margins in depths of hundreds to thousands of meters, has raised many questions regarding their ecology, biodiversity and relevance as deep-sea hard-ground habitat. This study represents the first investigation that explicitly targets bacterial diversity from distinct microbial habitats associated with the cosmopolitan reef-building coral Lophelia pertusa, and also compares natural (fjord) and controlled (aquarium) conditions. Coral skeleton surface, coral mucus, ambient seawater and reef sediments clearly showed habitat-specific differences in community structure and operational taxonomic unit (OTU) number. Especially in the natural environment, bacterial communities associated with coral-generated habitats were significantly more diverse than those present in the surrounding, non-coral habitats, or those in artificial coral living conditions (fjord vs aquarium). These findings strongly indicate characteristic coral–microbe associations and, furthermore, suggest that the variety of coral-generated habitats within reef systems promotes microbial diversity in the deep ocean. Article in Journal/Newspaper Lophelia pertusa Oxford University Press The ISME Journal 3 6 756 759 |
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Abstract The discovery of large ecosystems of cold-water corals (CWC), stretching along continental margins in depths of hundreds to thousands of meters, has raised many questions regarding their ecology, biodiversity and relevance as deep-sea hard-ground habitat. This study represents the first investigation that explicitly targets bacterial diversity from distinct microbial habitats associated with the cosmopolitan reef-building coral Lophelia pertusa, and also compares natural (fjord) and controlled (aquarium) conditions. Coral skeleton surface, coral mucus, ambient seawater and reef sediments clearly showed habitat-specific differences in community structure and operational taxonomic unit (OTU) number. Especially in the natural environment, bacterial communities associated with coral-generated habitats were significantly more diverse than those present in the surrounding, non-coral habitats, or those in artificial coral living conditions (fjord vs aquarium). These findings strongly indicate characteristic coral–microbe associations and, furthermore, suggest that the variety of coral-generated habitats within reef systems promotes microbial diversity in the deep ocean. |
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Schöttner, Sandra Hoffmann, Friederike Wild, Christian Rapp, Hans Tore Boetius, Antje Ramette, Alban Inter- and intra-habitat bacterial diversity associated with cold-water corals |
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Schöttner, Sandra Hoffmann, Friederike Wild, Christian Rapp, Hans Tore Boetius, Antje Ramette, Alban |
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Inter- and intra-habitat bacterial diversity associated with cold-water corals |
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Inter- and intra-habitat bacterial diversity associated with cold-water corals |
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Inter- and intra-habitat bacterial diversity associated with cold-water corals |
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Inter- and intra-habitat bacterial diversity associated with cold-water corals |
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Inter- and intra-habitat bacterial diversity associated with cold-water corals |
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inter- and intra-habitat bacterial diversity associated with cold-water corals |
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