title: Effects of sponge bleaching on ammonia-oxidizing Archaea: distribution and relative expression of ammonia monooxygenase genes associated with the barrel sponge Xestospongia muta.
abstract: Sponge-mediated nitrification is an important process in the nitrogen cycle, however, nothing is known about how nitrification and symbiotic Archaea may be affected by sponge disease and bleaching events. The giant barrel sponge Xestospongia muta is a prominent species on Caribbean reefs that contains cyanobacterial symbionts, the loss of which results in two types of bleaching: cyclic, a recoverable condition; and fatal, a condition associated with the disease-like sponge orange band (SOB) syndrome and sponge death. Terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (TRFLP) analyses, clone libraries, and relative mRNA quantification of ammonia monooxygenase genes (amoA) were performed using a RNA transcript-based approach to characterize the active ammonia-oxidizing Archaea (AOA) community present in bleached, non-bleached, and SOB tissues of cyclically and fatally bleached sponges. We found that non-bleached and cyclically bleached tissues of X. muta harbored a unique Crenarchaeota community closely related to those reported for other sponges. In contrast, bleached tissue from the most degraded sponge contained a Crenarchaeota community that was more similar to those found in sediment and sand. Although there were no significant differences in amoA expression among the different tissues, amoA expression was higher in the most deteriorated tissues. Results suggest that a shift in the Crenarchaeota community precedes an increase in amoA gene expression in fatally bleached sponges, while cyclic bleaching did not alter the AOA community structure and its amoA gene expression.
authors.affiliation: Center for Marine Science, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 5600 Marvin K. Moss Lane, Wilmington, NC 28409, USA. susanna@univ-perp.fr
authors.forename: Susanna
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: López-Legentil
authors.forename: Patrick M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Erwin
authors.forename: Joseph R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Pawlik
authors.forename: Bongkeun
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Song
mesh_terms: D000641:Ammonia / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D019843:Archaeal Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D019615:Crenarchaeota / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics; D015723:Gene Library; D019766:Genes, Archaeal; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D010088:Oxidoreductases / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D019642:RNA, Archaeal / Q000235:genetics; D047131:Xestospongia / Q000382:microbiology*
chemical_list: D019843:Archaeal Proteins; D019642:RNA, Archaeal; D000641:Ammonia; D010088:Oxidoreductases; C045582:ammonia monooxygenase
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