Biodiversity patterns of cyanobacterial oligotypes in lakes and rivers: results of a large-scale metabarcoding survey in the Alpine region

In this work, we characterised the cyanobacterial communities in the plankton and littoral biofilm of 38 lakes and in the biofilm of 21 rivers in the Alps and surrounding subalpine regions by 16S rRNA gene metabarcoding. We found little overlap in the distribution of amplicon sequence variants (ASVs...

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Published in:Hydrobiologia 2024-02, Vol.851 (4), p.1035-1062
Main Authors: Salmaso, Nico, Bernabei, Serena, Boscaini, Adriano, Capelli, Camilla, Cerasino, Leonardo, Domaizon, Isabelle, Elersek, Tina, Greco, Claudia, Krivograd Klemenčič, Aleksandra, Tomassetti, Paolo, Kurmayer, Rainer
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Language:English
Subjects:
Alpine regions
Ammonium nitrogen
Biodiversity
Biofilms
Biomedical and Life Sciences
DNA barcoding
Ecological adaptation
Ecology
Environmental conditions
Environmental Sciences
Freshwater & Marine Ecology
Genera
Genotypes
Lakes
Life Sciences
Littoral environments
Microalgal Functional Traits
Morphometry
Nucleotide sequence
Phylogenetics
Phylogeny
Plankton
Rivers
rRNA 16S
Zoology
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Summary:In this work, we characterised the cyanobacterial communities in the plankton and littoral biofilm of 38 lakes and in the biofilm of 21 rivers in the Alps and surrounding subalpine regions by 16S rRNA gene metabarcoding. We found little overlap in the distribution of amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) between the three habitats and between water bodies. The differences were caused by environmental filtering acting on the selection of the most abundant ASVs and a high contribution of rare oligotypes. The differentiation of community and genotype composition from specific water bodies was explained to a significant extent by environmental variables and morphometry. The taxonomic consistency of ASVs classified under the same genus name was assessed by phylogenetic analyses performed on three representative dominant genera, namely Cyanobium , Tychonema and Planktothrix . The analyses revealed eco-evolutionary adaptations in lakes and rivers, including some evidence for a polyphyletic nature. Monitoring individual genotypes in relation to environmental conditions will be useful to define the ecological amplitude of these taxa. However, the persistence or ephemeral nature of some of the rarest and most unusual ASVs has remained unknown.
ISSN:0018-8158
1573-5117
DOI:10.1007/s10750-023-05423-z