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Spatial and Temporal Distribution of the Vibrionaceae in Coastal Waters of Hawaii, Australia, and France

Microbial Ecology volume 54, pages 314–323 (2007)Cite this article

Abstract

Relatively little is known about large-scale spatial and temporal fluctuations in bacterioplankton, especially within the bacterial families. In general, however, a number of abiotic factors (namely, nutrients and temperature) appear to influence distribution. Community dynamics within the Vibrionaceae are of particular interest to biologists because this family contains a number of important pathogenic, commensal, and mutualist species. Of special interest to this study is the mutualism between sepiolid squids and Vibrio fischeri and Vibrio logei, where host squids seed surrounding waters daily with their bacterial partners. This study seeks to examine the spatial and temporal distribution of the Vibrionaceae with respect to V. fischeri and V. logei in Hawaii, southeastern Australia, and southern France sampling sites. In particular, we examine how the presence of sepiolid squid hosts influences community population structure within the Vibrionaceae. We found that abiotic (temperature) and biotic (host distribution) factors both influence population dynamics. In Hawaii, three sites within squid host habitat contained communities of Vibrionaceae with higher proportions of V. fischeri. In Australia, V. fischeri numbers at host collection sites were greater than other populations; however, there were no spatial or temporal patterns seen at other sample sites. In France, host presence did not appear to influence Vibrio communities, although sampled populations were significantly greater in the winter than summer sampling periods. Results of this study demonstrate the importance of understanding how both abiotic and biotic factors interact to influence bacterial community structure within the Vibrionaceae.

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to M. Sunamura and C. Miyako from the Maruyama Laboratory for advice with developing FISH probes. We also thank T. Henderson for help with FISH probe optimization. We would also like to thank the crew of the Neres and especially Laurent Zudaire for help with the CTD collection at the Laboratoire Arago. This work was supported by NSF DEB0316516, SBE0123690, and DBI007982, and NIH-SO6 GM08136-26 to M.K.N., and NIH-RISE GM61222-01 and NIH BRIDGES GM48998 for support of T. Henderson. B.W.J. was partially supported by an NSF Summer in Japan fellowship.

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  1. Department of Biology, New Mexico State University, P. O. Box 30001 MSC 3AF, Las Cruces, NM, 88003-8001, USA

    B. W. Jones & M. K. Nishiguchi

  2. Biological Resources and Functions, National Institute of Advanced and Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Central 6, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8566, Japan

    A. Maruyama

  3. Department of Biology, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, 95192-0100, USA

    C. C. Ouverney

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Jones, B.W., Maruyama, A., Ouverney, C.C. et al. Spatial and Temporal Distribution of the Vibrionaceae in Coastal Waters of Hawaii, Australia, and France. Microb Ecol 54, 314–323 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-006-9204-z

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Keywords

  • Vibrio
  • Bacterial Community Structure
  • Bacterioplankton Community
  • Formamide Concentration
  • Hawaiian Water