Project description:Untargeted proteomics from a 5,000 km+ transect across the central Pacific Ocean from Hawaii to Tahiti. The expedition crossed multiple biogeochemical provinces, inlcuding the oligotrophic North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, the extremety of the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Oxygen Deficient Zone, and the relatively productive equatorial region associated with upwelling. This dataset focuses on the microbial fraction (0.2-3.0 micrometer filter size) and the microbial community dynamics across these biogeochemical provinces, from the surface oceance to the mesopelagic (1,250 m depth maximum).
Project description:Marine microbial communities are critical for biogeochemical cycles and the productivity of ocean ecosystems. Primary productivity, at the base of marine food webs, is constrained by nutrient availability in the surface ocean, and nutrient advection from deeper waters can fuel photosynthesis. In this study, we compared the transcriptional responses by surface microbial communities after experimental deep water mixing to the transcriptional patterns of in situ microbial communities collected with high-resolution automated sampling during a bloom in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. Transcriptional responses were assayed with the MicroTOOLs (Microbiological Targets for Ocean Observing Laboratories) marine environmental microarray, which targets all three domains of life and viruses. The experiments showed that mixing of deep and surface waters substantially affects the transcription of photosystem and nutrient response genes among photosynthetic taxa within 24 hours, and that there are specific responses associated with the addition of deep water containing particles (organisms and detritus) compared to filtered deep water. In situ gene transcription was most similar to that in surface water experiments with deep water additions, showing that in situ populations were affected by mixing of nutrients at the six sampling sites. Together, these results show the value of targeted metatranscriptomes for assessing the physiological status of complex microbial communities.
2018-09-03 | GSE109218 | GEO
Project description:microbial assemblages in the western subtropical Pacific Ocean
Project description:The levels of chlorophyll a and nutrient concentrations in the surface waters of the western subtropical Pacific Ocean are among the lowest globally. In addition, our knowledge of basin-scale diversity and biogeography of microbial communities in this vast extremely oligotrophic environment is still rather limited. Here, high-throughput sequencing was used to examine the biodiversity and biogeography of abundant and rare microbial assemblages throughout the water column from the surface to a depth of 3,000 m across a horizontal distance of 1,100 km in the western Pacific Ocean. Microbial alpha diversity in the 200-m layer was higher than at other depths, with Gammaproteobacteria, Alphaproteobacteria, and Clostridia as the dominant classes in all samples. Distinctly vertical distributions within the microbial communities were revealed, with no difference horizontally. Some microbes exhibited depth stratification. For example, the relative abundances of Cyanobacteria and Alphaproteobacteria decreased with depth, while Nitrososphaeria, Actinobacteria, and Gammaproteobacteria increased with depth in the aphotic layers. Furthermore, we found that environmental (selective process) and spatial (neutral process) factors had different effects on abundant and rare taxa. Geographical distance showed little effect on the dispersal of all and abundant taxa, while statistically significant distance-decay relationships were observed among the rare taxa. Temperature and chlorophyll a were strongly associated with all, abundant, and rare taxa in the photic layers, while total inorganic nitrogen was recognized as the crucial factor in the aphotic layers. Variance partitioning analysis indicated that environmental selection played a relatively important role in shaping all and abundant taxa, while the variation in rare taxa explained by environmental and spatial processes was relatively low, as more than 70% of the variation remained unexplained. This study provides novel knowledge related to microbial community diversity in the western subtropical Pacific Ocean, and the analyzes biogeographical patterns among abundant and rare taxa.
Project description:Global metaproteomic analyses of microbial biomass from the upper water column of the Central Pacific Ocean. This dataset was used as a discovery dataset to identify peptide biomarkers for cyanobacterial populations for use in targeted metaproteomic calibrated multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) analyses published in in Saito et al., 2014 and 2015. Saito, M. A., McIlvin, M. R., Moran, D. M., Goepfert, T. J., DiTullio, G. R., Post, A. F., and Lamborg, C. H.: Multiple nutrient stresses at intersecting Pacific Ocean biomes detected by protein biomarkers, Science, 345, 1173-1177, 2014. Saito, M. A., Dorsk, A., Post, A. F., McIlvin, M., Rappé, M. S., DiTullio, G., and Moran, D.: Needles in the Blue Sea: Sub‐Species Specificity in Targeted Protein Biomarker Analyses Within the Vast Oceanic Microbial Metaproteome, PROTEOMICS, 15, 3521-3531, 2015.
Project description:This SuperSeries is composed of the following subset Series: GSE22171: Pacific salmon gill samples: fate tracking in river, sampled in ocean GSE22177: Pacific salmon gill samples: fate tracking in river GSE22347: Pacific salmon gill samples: fate tracking at spawning grounds Refer to individual Series
Project description:This work is a part of the Taiwan Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigation, the first large scale hydrographic and plankton survey around Taiwan (21-26°N, 119-123°E). The present study examined the influence of hydrodynamic and biological variables driven by monsoon system on the siphonophore assemblages through an annual cycle in 2004. Calycophorans, namely Chelophyes appendiculata, Diphyes chamissonis, Lensia subtiloides, Bassia bassensis, and Muggiaea atlantica, were the most dominant siphonophore species. Maximum abundance of these dominant species generally occurred during the warm period (May and August), while M. atlantica had a significantly peak abundance in February. Although no apparently temporal difference in siphonophore abundance was observed in the study, siphonophore assemblage was more diverse in August than in other sampling times. Result of a cluster analysis indicated that assemblage structure of siphonophores in the waters around Taiwan varied at temporal and spatial scales during the sampling period. The intrusions of the Kuroshio Branch Current and China Coastal Current to the study area play an important role on the transportation of siphonophores. Also, the distribution of siphonophore assemblage was closely related to the hydrographic characteristics, with temperature, chlorophyll a concentration, and zooplankton abundance being the major environmental factors affecting the spatio-temporal variability of siphonophores. This study contributes substantially to the new knowledge of the siphonophore assemblage in the tropical-temperate waters of Taiwan.