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Jellyfish Life Stages Shape Associated Microbial Communities, While a Core Microbiome Is Maintained Across All.


ABSTRACT: The key to 650 million years of evolutionary success in jellyfish is adaptability: with alternating benthic and pelagic generations, sexual and asexual reproductive modes, multitudes of body forms and a cosmopolitan distribution, jellyfish are likely to have established a plenitude of microbial associations. Here we explored bacterial assemblages in the scyphozoan jellyfish Chrysaora plocamia (Lesson 1832). Life stages involved in propagation through cyst formation, i.e., the mother polyp, its dormant cysts (podocysts), and polyps recently excysted (excysts) from podocysts - were investigated. Associated bacterial assemblages were assessed using MiSeq Illumina paired-end tag sequencing of the V1V2 region of the 16S rRNA gene. A microbial core-community was identified as present through all investigated life stages, including bacteria with closest relatives known to be key drivers of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur cycling. Moreover, the fact that half of C. plocamia's core bacteria were also present in life stages of the jellyfish Aurelia aurita, suggests that this bacterial community might represent an intrinsic characteristic of scyphozoan jellyfish, contributing to their evolutionary success.

SUBMITTER: Lee MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6052147 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Jellyfish Life Stages Shape Associated Microbial Communities, While a Core Microbiome Is Maintained Across All.

Lee Michael D MD   Kling Joshua D JD   Araya Rubén R   Ceh Janja J  

Frontiers in microbiology 20180712


The key to 650 million years of evolutionary success in jellyfish is adaptability: with alternating benthic and pelagic generations, sexual and asexual reproductive modes, multitudes of body forms and a cosmopolitan distribution, jellyfish are likely to have established a plenitude of microbial associations. Here we explored bacterial assemblages in the scyphozoan jellyfish <i>Chrysaora plocamia</i> (Lesson 1832). Life stages involved in propagation through cyst formation, i.e., the mother polyp  ...[more]

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