Bacterial epibiont communities of panmictic Antarctic krill are spatially structured

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Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) are amongst the most abundant animals on Earth, with a circumpolar distribution in the Southern Ocean. Genetic and genomic studies have failed to detect any population structure for the species, suggesting a single panmictic population. However, the hyper-abundance of krill slows the rate of genetic differentiation, masking potential underlying structure. Here we use high-throughput sequencing of bacterial 16S rRNA genes to show that krill bacterial epibiont communities exhibit spatial structuring, driven mainly by distance rather than environmental factors, especially for strongly krill-associated bacteria. Estimating the ecological processes driving bacterial community turnover indicated this was driven by bacterial dispersal limitation increasing with geographic distance. Furthermore, divergent epibiont communities generated from a single krill swarm split between aquarium tanks under near-identical conditions suggests physical isolation in itself can cause krill-associated bacterial communities to diverge. Our findings show that Antarctic krill-associated bacterial communities are geographically structured, in direct contrast with the lack of structure observed for krill genetic and genomic data.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:30

Enthalten in:

Molecular ecology - 30(2021), 4 vom: 01. Feb., Seite 1042-1052

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Clarke, Laurence J [VerfasserIn]
Suter, Léonie [VerfasserIn]
King, Rob [VerfasserIn]
Bissett, Andrew [VerfasserIn]
Bestley, Sophie [VerfasserIn]
Deagle, Bruce E [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Bacteria
Crustaceans
Fisheries management
Journal Article
Microbial biology
Population dynamics
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 21.06.2021

Date Revised 21.06.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1111/mec.15771

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM318656558