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Desacoplamiento de las tasas de respiración y la abundancia en el procarioplancton marino
Jacob H Munson-McGee1, Melody R Lindsay1, Eva Sintes2,3
1Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME, USA.
Nature
|December 8, 2022
Resumen
Microbios marinos
Área de la Ciencia:
- Ecología microbiana marina
- Ciclos biogeoquímicos
- La oceanografía
Sus antecedentes:
- El intercambio de CO2 entre el océano y la atmósfera se basa en la fotosíntesis y la respiración microbiana marina.
- La diversidad de procarioplancton es vasta, pero su respiración a menudo se modela como una caja negra.
- Esto limita la comprensión del ciclo global del carbono.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Para investigar las tasas de respiración específicas de las células en el procarioplancton marino.
- Comprender la contribución de los diferentes linajes de procarioplancton a la respiración.
- Explorar el papel de la fototropía en la adquisición de energía del procarioplancton.
Principales métodos:
- Análisis integrados del fenotipo de las células microbianas individuales.
- Secuenciación genómica de las células microbianas individuales.
- Cuantificación de las transcripciones de proteorhodopsina.
Principales resultados:
- Las tasas de respiración específicas de las células variaron más de 1.000 veces entre los géneros de procarioplancton.
- Las poblaciones minoritarias, como Roseobacter, dominaban la respiración.
- Los linajes prevalentes, como Pelagibacter y SAR86, exhibieron tasas de respiración muy bajas.
- La evidencia sugiere que la fototropía basada en proteorhodopsina es una fuente de energía significativa para algunos linajes.
Conclusiones:
- La respiración del procarioplancton es muy variable y no depende únicamente de los linajes prevalentes.
- La dependencia del procarioplancton en la respiración para obtener energía puede ser menor de lo que se suponía anteriormente.
- La fototropía basada en proteorhodopsina probablemente mejora la eficiencia de crecimiento en ciertas bacterias y arqueas marinas.
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