PMID- 18266758 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20080513 LR - 20131121 IS - 1462-2920 (Electronic) IS - 1462-2912 (Linking) VI - 10 IP - 4 DP - 2008 Apr TI - Shifts in the relative abundance of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea across physicochemical gradients in a subterranean estuary. PG - 1068-79 LID - 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01547.x [doi] AB - Submarine groundwater discharge to coastal waters can be a significant source of both contaminants and biologically limiting nutrients. Nitrogen cycling across steep gradients in salinity, oxygen and dissolved inorganic nitrogen in sandy 'subterranean estuaries' controls both the amount and form of nitrogen discharged to the coastal ocean. We determined the effect of these gradients on betaproteobacterial ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (beta-AOB) and ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) in a subterranean estuary using the functional gene encoding ammonia monooxygenase subunit A (amoA). The abundance of beta-AOB was dramatically lower in the freshwater stations compared with saline stations, while AOA abundance remained nearly constant across the study site. This differing response to salinity altered the ratio of beta-AOB to AOA such that bacterial amoA was 30 times more abundant than crenarchaeal amoA at the oxic marine station, but nearly 10 times less abundant at the low-oxygen fresh and brackish stations. As the location of the brackish mixing zone within the aquifer shifted from landward in winter to oceanward in summer, the location of the transition from a beta-AOB-dominated to an AOA-dominated community also shifted, demonstrating the intimate link between microbial communities and coastal hydrology. Analysis of ammonia-oxidizing enrichment cultures at a range of salinities revealed that AOA persisted solely in the freshwater enrichments where they actively express amoA. Diversity (as measured by total richness) of crenarchaeal amoA was high at all stations and time points, in sharp contrast to betaproteobacterial amoA for which only two sequence types were found. These results offer new insights into the ecology of AOA and beta-AOB by elucidating conditions that may favour the numerical dominance of beta-AOB over AOA in coastal sediments. FAU - Santoro, Alyson E AU - Santoro AE AD - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. asantoro@stanford.edu FAU - Francis, Christopher A AU - Francis CA FAU - de Sieyes, Nicholas R AU - de Sieyes NR FAU - Boehm, Alexandria B AU - Boehm AB LA - eng SI - GENBANK/EU022758 SI - GENBANK/EU022759 SI - GENBANK/EU022760 SI - GENBANK/EU022761 SI - GENBANK/EU022762 SI - GENBANK/EU022763 SI - GENBANK/EU022764 SI - GENBANK/EU022765 SI - GENBANK/EU022766 SI - GENBANK/EU022767 SI - GENBANK/EU022768 SI - GENBANK/EU022769 SI - GENBANK/EU022770 SI - GENBANK/EU022771 SI - GENBANK/EU022772 SI - GENBANK/EU022773 SI - GENBANK/EU022774 SI - GENBANK/EU022775 SI - GENBANK/EU022776 SI - GENBANK/EU022777 SI - GENBANK/EU022778 SI - GENBANK/EU022779 SI - GENBANK/EU022780 SI - GENBANK/EU022781 SI - GENBANK/EU022782 SI - GENBANK/EU022783 SI - GENBANK/EU022784 SI - GENBANK/EU022785 SI - GENBANK/EU022786 SI - GENBANK/EU022787 SI - GENBANK/EU022788 SI - GENBANK/EU022789 SI - 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DEP - 20080203 PL - England TA - Environ Microbiol JT - Environmental microbiology JID - 100883692 RN - 0 (Inorganic Chemicals) RN - 7664-41-7 (Ammonia) RN - EC 1.- (Oxidoreductases) RN - EC 1.7.3.- (ammonia monooxygenase) RN - N762921K75 (Nitrogen) RN - S88TT14065 (Oxygen) SB - IM MH - Ammonia/*metabolism MH - Archaea/genetics/*isolation & purification/metabolism MH - Betaproteobacteria/genetics/*isolation & purification/metabolism MH - California MH - *Ecosystem MH - Fresh Water/analysis/*microbiology MH - Genes, Archaeal MH - Genes, Bacterial MH - Geologic Sediments/analysis/*microbiology MH - Inorganic Chemicals/metabolism MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Nitrogen/metabolism MH - Oxidoreductases/genetics MH - Oxygen/metabolism MH - Salinity MH - Seawater/analysis/*microbiology MH - *Soil Microbiology MH - *Water Microbiology EDAT- 2008/02/13 09:00 MHDA- 2008/05/14 09:00 CRDT- 2008/02/13 09:00 PHST- 2008/02/13 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2008/05/14 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2008/02/13 09:00 [entrez] AID - EMI1547 [pii] AID - 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01547.x [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Environ Microbiol. 2008 Apr;10(4):1068-79. doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01547.x. Epub 2008 Feb 3.