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Main Authors: Grosche, Ashley, Selci, Matteo, Smedile, Francesco, Giovannelli, Donato, Borin, Sara, Le Bris, Nadine, Vetriani, Costantino
Format: Artículo científico
Language:en
Published: Environmental microbiome 2025
Online Access:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40660416/
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author Grosche, Ashley
Selci, Matteo
Smedile, Francesco
Giovannelli, Donato
Borin, Sara
Le Bris, Nadine
Vetriani, Costantino
author_facet Grosche, Ashley
Selci, Matteo
Smedile, Francesco
Giovannelli, Donato
Borin, Sara
Le Bris, Nadine
Vetriani, Costantino
Grosche, Ashley
Selci, Matteo
Smedile, Francesco
Giovannelli, Donato
Borin, Sara
Le Bris, Nadine
Vetriani, Costantino
collection PubMed - marine biology
contents The chemosynthetic biofilm microbiome of deep-sea hydrothermal vents across space and time. Grosche, Ashley Selci, Matteo Smedile, Francesco Giovannelli, Donato Borin, Sara Le Bris, Nadine Vetriani, Costantino Microbial biofilms colonize mineral and biological substrates exposed to fluid circulation at deep-sea hydrothermal vents, providing a biologically active interface along redox boundaries. Since many biofilms at deep-sea vents are associated with invertebrates, microbial distribution and abundance are not only constrained by local fluid geochemistry, but also through host-microbe interactions. This study examined the spatial distribution and diversity of established microbial biofilm communities collected from three distinct biological regimes characteristic of the East Pacific Rise (9°50 N, 104°17 W) vent system, as well as newly established biofilms on experimental microbial colonization devices. Transcripts from 16S rRNA-based amplicon sequencing revealed that Campylobacterota of the Sulfurimonas and Sulfurovum genera dominated newly-formed biofilms across all biological regimes. Statistical analyses using environmental chemistry data from each sampling site suggest that community composition is significantly impacted by biofilm age, temperature and sulfide concentration ranges, and to a lesser extent, locality. Further, metatranscriptomic analyses were used to investigate changes in community gene expression between seafloor and subseafloor biofilms. Our findings revealed differences in the type and abundance of transcripts related to respiratory pathways, carbon fixation and reactive oxygen species (ROS) detoxification. Overall, this study provides a novel conceptual framework for evaluating biofilm structure and function at deep-sea vents by showing a transition from a niche-specific pioneer microbial community in newly-formed biofilms, to a complex population of increased diversity in established biofilms and by identifying key changes in gene expression in taxonomically similar biofilms during the transition from the shallow subseafloor to the seafloor.
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spellingShingle The chemosynthetic biofilm microbiome of deep-sea hydrothermal vents across space and time.
Grosche, Ashley
Selci, Matteo
Smedile, Francesco
Giovannelli, Donato
Borin, Sara
Le Bris, Nadine
Vetriani, Costantino
The chemosynthetic biofilm microbiome of deep-sea hydrothermal vents across space and time. Grosche, Ashley Selci, Matteo Smedile, Francesco Giovannelli, Donato Borin, Sara Le Bris, Nadine Vetriani, Costantino Microbial biofilms colonize mineral and biological substrates exposed to fluid circulation at deep-sea hydrothermal vents, providing a biologically active interface along redox boundaries. Since many biofilms at deep-sea vents are associated with invertebrates, microbial distribution and abundance are not only constrained by local fluid geochemistry, but also through host-microbe interactions. This study examined the spatial distribution and diversity of established microbial biofilm communities collected from three distinct biological regimes characteristic of the East Pacific Rise (9°50 N, 104°17 W) vent system, as well as newly established biofilms on experimental microbial colonization devices. Transcripts from 16S rRNA-based amplicon sequencing revealed that Campylobacterota of the Sulfurimonas and Sulfurovum genera dominated newly-formed biofilms across all biological regimes. Statistical analyses using environmental chemistry data from each sampling site suggest that community composition is significantly impacted by biofilm age, temperature and sulfide concentration ranges, and to a lesser extent, locality. Further, metatranscriptomic analyses were used to investigate changes in community gene expression between seafloor and subseafloor biofilms. Our findings revealed differences in the type and abundance of transcripts related to respiratory pathways, carbon fixation and reactive oxygen species (ROS) detoxification. Overall, this study provides a novel conceptual framework for evaluating biofilm structure and function at deep-sea vents by showing a transition from a niche-specific pioneer microbial community in newly-formed biofilms, to a complex population of increased diversity in established biofilms and by identifying key changes in gene expression in taxonomically similar biofilms during the transition from the shallow subseafloor to the seafloor.
title The chemosynthetic biofilm microbiome of deep-sea hydrothermal vents across space and time.
url https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40660416/