- Title
- Metabolic pathways inferred from a bacterial marker gene illuminate ecological changes across South Pacific frontal boundaries
- Creator
- Raes, Eric J.; Karsh, Kristen; Sow, Swan L. S.; Ostrowski, Martin; Brown, Mark V.; van de Kamp, Jodie; Franco-Santos, Rita M.; Bodrossy, Levente; Waite, Anya M.
- Relation
- Nature Communications Vol. 12, no. 2213
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22409-4
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- Global oceanographic monitoring initiatives originally measured abiotic essential ocean variables but are currently incorporating biological and metagenomic sampling programs. There is, however, a large knowledge gap on how to infer bacterial functions, the information sought by biogeochemists, ecologists, and modelers, from the bacterial taxonomic information (produced by bacterial marker gene surveys). Here, we provide a correlative understanding of how a bacterial marker gene (16S rRNA) can be used to infer latitudinal trends for metabolic pathways in global monitoring campaigns. From a transect spanning 7000 km in the South Pacific Ocean we infer ten metabolic pathways from 16S rRNA gene sequences and 11 corresponding metagenome samples, which relate to metabolic processes of primary productivity, temperature-regulated thermodynamic effects, coping strategies for nutrient limitation, energy metabolism, and organic matter degradation. This study demonstrates that low-cost, high-throughput bacterial marker gene data, can be used to infer shifts in the metabolic strategies at the community scale.
- Subject
- oceanographic monitoring; gene data; ecological changes; metabolic pathways
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1497362
- Identifier
- uon:54329
- Identifier
- ISSN:2041-1723
- Rights
- This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
- Language
- eng
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