PMID- 17593423 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20071217 LR - 20181113 IS - 0095-3628 (Print) IS - 0095-3628 (Linking) VI - 54 IP - 3 DP - 2007 Oct TI - Archaeal communities in a tropical estuarine ecosystem: Guanabara Bay, Brazil. PG - 460-8 AB - Guanabara Bay is an eutrophic estuarine system located in a humid tropical region surrounded by the second largest metropolitan area of Brazil. This study explores the contrasting environmental chemistry and microbiological parameters that influence the archaeaplankton diversity in a pollution gradient in Guanabara Bay ecosystem. The environments sampled ranged from completely anoxic waters in a polluted inner channel to the adjacent, relatively pristine, coastal Atlantic Ocean. Partial archaeal 16S rDNA sequences in water samples were retrieved by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and analyzed using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE), cloning, and sequencing. Sequences were subjected to phylogenetic and diversity analyses. Community structure of the free-living archaeal assemblages was different from that of the particle-attached archaea according to DGGE. Gene libraries revealed that phylotype identification was consistent with environmental setting. Archaeal phylotypes found in polluted anoxic waters and in more pristine waters were closely related to organisms that have previously been found in these environments. However, inner bay archaea were related to organisms found in oil, industrial wastes, and sewage, implying that water pollution controls archaea communities in this system. The detection of a substantial number of uncultured phylotypes suggests that Guanabara Bay harbors a pool of novel archaeaplankton taxa. FAU - Vieira, Ricardo P AU - Vieira RP AD - Departamento de Biologia Marinha, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 21941-590, Brazil. FAU - Clementino, Maysa M AU - Clementino MM FAU - Cardoso, Alexander M AU - Cardoso AM FAU - Oliveira, Denise N AU - Oliveira DN FAU - Albano, Rodolpho M AU - Albano RM FAU - Gonzalez, Alessandra M AU - Gonzalez AM FAU - Paranhos, Rodolfo AU - Paranhos R FAU - Martins, Orlando B AU - Martins OB LA - eng SI - GENBANK/DQ913105 SI - GENBANK/DQ913106 SI - GENBANK/DQ913107 SI - GENBANK/DQ913108 SI - GENBANK/DQ913109 SI - GENBANK/DQ913110 SI - GENBANK/DQ913111 SI - GENBANK/DQ913112 SI - GENBANK/DQ913113 SI - GENBANK/DQ913114 SI - GENBANK/DQ913115 SI - GENBANK/DQ913116 SI - GENBANK/DQ913117 SI - GENBANK/DQ913118 SI - GENBANK/DQ913119 SI - GENBANK/DQ913120 SI - GENBANK/DQ913121 SI - GENBANK/DQ913122 SI - GENBANK/DQ913123 SI - GENBANK/DQ913124 SI - GENBANK/DQ913125 SI - GENBANK/DQ913126 SI - GENBANK/DQ913127 SI - GENBANK/DQ913128 SI - GENBANK/DQ913129 SI - GENBANK/DQ913130 SI - GENBANK/DQ913131 SI - GENBANK/DQ913132 SI - GENBANK/DQ913133 SI - GENBANK/DQ913134 SI - GENBANK/DQ913135 SI - GENBANK/DQ913136 SI - GENBANK/DQ913137 SI - GENBANK/DQ913138 SI - GENBANK/DQ913139 SI - GENBANK/DQ913140 SI - GENBANK/DQ913141 SI - GENBANK/DQ913142 SI - GENBANK/DQ913143 SI - GENBANK/DQ913144 SI - GENBANK/DQ913145 SI - GENBANK/DQ913146 SI - GENBANK/DQ913147 SI - GENBANK/DQ913148 SI - GENBANK/DQ913149 SI - GENBANK/DQ913150 SI - GENBANK/DQ913151 SI - GENBANK/DQ913152 SI - GENBANK/DQ913153 SI - GENBANK/DQ913154 SI - GENBANK/DQ913155 SI - GENBANK/DQ913156 SI - GENBANK/DQ913157 SI - GENBANK/DQ913158 SI - GENBANK/DQ913159 SI - GENBANK/DQ913160 SI - GENBANK/DQ913161 SI - GENBANK/DQ913162 SI - GENBANK/DQ913163 SI - GENBANK/DQ913164 SI - GENBANK/DQ913165 SI - GENBANK/DQ913166 SI - GENBANK/DQ913167 SI - GENBANK/DQ913168 SI - GENBANK/DQ913169 SI - GENBANK/DQ913170 SI - GENBANK/DQ913171 SI - GENBANK/DQ913172 SI - GENBANK/DQ913173 SI - GENBANK/DQ913174 SI - GENBANK/DQ913175 SI - GENBANK/DQ913176 SI - GENBANK/DQ913177 SI - GENBANK/DQ913178 SI - GENBANK/DQ913179 SI - GENBANK/DQ913180 SI - GENBANK/DQ913181 SI - GENBANK/DQ913182 SI - GENBANK/DQ913183 SI - GENBANK/DQ913184 SI - GENBANK/DQ913185 SI - GENBANK/DQ913186 SI - GENBANK/DQ913187 SI - GENBANK/DQ913188 SI - GENBANK/DQ913189 SI - GENBANK/DQ913190 SI - GENBANK/DQ913191 SI - GENBANK/DQ913192 SI - GENBANK/DQ913193 SI - GENBANK/DQ913194 SI - GENBANK/DQ913195 SI - GENBANK/DQ913196 SI - GENBANK/DQ913197 SI - GENBANK/DQ913198 SI - GENBANK/DQ913199 SI - GENBANK/DQ913200 SI - GENBANK/DQ913201 SI - GENBANK/DQ913202 SI - GENBANK/DQ913203 SI - GENBANK/DQ913204 SI - GENBANK/DQ913205 SI - GENBANK/DQ913206 SI - GENBANK/DQ913207 SI - GENBANK/DQ913208 SI - GENBANK/DQ913209 SI - GENBANK/DQ913210 SI - GENBANK/DQ913211 SI - GENBANK/DQ913212 SI - GENBANK/DQ913213 SI - GENBANK/DQ913214 SI - GENBANK/DQ913215 SI - GENBANK/DQ913216 SI - GENBANK/DQ913217 SI - GENBANK/DQ913218 SI - GENBANK/DQ913219 SI - GENBANK/DQ913220 SI - GENBANK/DQ913221 SI - GENBANK/DQ913222 SI - GENBANK/DQ913223 SI - GENBANK/DQ913224 SI - GENBANK/DQ913225 SI - GENBANK/DQ913226 SI - GENBANK/DQ913227 SI - GENBANK/DQ913228 SI - GENBANK/DQ913229 SI - GENBANK/DQ913230 SI - GENBANK/DQ913231 SI - GENBANK/DQ913232 SI - GENBANK/DQ913233 SI - GENBANK/DQ913234 SI - GENBANK/DQ913235 SI - GENBANK/DQ913236 SI - GENBANK/DQ913237 SI - GENBANK/DQ913238 SI - GENBANK/DQ913239 PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20070626 PL - United States TA - Microb Ecol JT - Microbial ecology JID - 7500663 RN - 0 (DNA, Archaeal) RN - 0 (RNA, Ribosomal, 16S) SB - IM MH - Archaea/classification/*genetics/growth & development MH - Brazil MH - DNA, Archaeal/chemistry/genetics MH - *Ecosystem MH - Geography MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Phylogeny MH - Polymerase Chain Reaction MH - RNA, Ribosomal, 16S/genetics MH - Seawater/*microbiology MH - Sequence Analysis, DNA EDAT- 2007/06/27 09:00 MHDA- 2007/12/18 09:00 CRDT- 2007/06/27 09:00 PHST- 2007/01/25 00:00 [received] PHST- 2007/04/18 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2007/06/27 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2007/12/18 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2007/06/27 09:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1007/s00248-007-9261-y [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Microb Ecol. 2007 Oct;54(3):460-8. doi: 10.1007/s00248-007-9261-y. Epub 2007 Jun 26.