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Título: Seasonal impact of grazing, viral mortality, resource availability and light on the group-specific growth rates of coastal Mediterranean bacterioplankton
Autores/as: Sánchez, Olga
Ferrera, Isabel
Mabrito, Isabel
Gazulla, Carlota R.
Sebastián, Marta 
Auladell, Adrià
Marín-Vindas, Carolina
Cardelús, Clara
Sanz-Sáez, Isabel
Pernice, Massimo C.
Marrasé, Cèlia
Sala, M. Montserrat
Gasol, Josep M.
Clasificación UNESCO: 251001 Oceanografía biológica
Fecha de publicación: 2020
Proyectos: REMEI (CTM2015-70340-R), (Ministerio de Investigación e Innovación)
ANIMA (CTM2015-65720-R), (Ministerio de Investigación e Innovación)
MIAU (RTI2018-101025-B-I00), (Ministerio de Investigación e Innovación)
Publicación seriada: Scientific Reports 
Resumen: Estimation of prokaryotic growth rates is critical to understand the ecological role and contribution of different microbes to marine biogeochemical cycles. However, there is a general lack of knowledge on what factors control the growth rates of different prokaryotic groups and how these vary between sites and along seasons at a given site. We carried out several manipulation experiments during the four astronomical seasons in the coastal NW Mediterranean in order to evaluate the impact of grazing, viral mortality, resource competition and light on the growth and loss rates of prokaryotes. Gross and net growth rates of different bacterioplankton groups targeted by group-specific CARD-FISH probes and infrared microscopy (for aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs, AAP), were calculated from changes in cell abundances. Maximal group-specific growth rates were achieved when both predation pressure and nutrient limitation were experimentally minimized, while only a minimal effect of viral pressure on growth rates was observed; nevertheless, the response to predation removal was more remarkable in winter, when the bacterial community was not subjected to nutrient limitation. Although all groups showed increases in their growth rates when resource competition as well as grazers and viral pressure were reduced, Alteromonadaceae consistently presented the highest rates in all seasons. The response to light availability was generally weaker than that to the other factors, but it was variable between seasons. In summer and spring, the growth rates of AAP were stimulated by light whereas the growth of the SAR11 clade (likely containing proteorhodopsin) was enhanced by light in all seasons. Overall, our results set thresholds on bacterioplankton group-specific growth and mortality rates and contribute to estimate the seasonally changing contribution of various bacterioplankton groups to the function of microbial communities. Our results also indicate that the least abundant groups display the highest growth rates, contributing to the recycling of organic matter to a much greater extent than what their abundances alone would predict.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/75812
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-76590-5
Fuente: Scientific Reports [EISSN 2045-2322], v. 10 (1), 19773 (Diciembre 2020)
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