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Synergistic Impacts of Arsenic and Antimony Co-contamination on Diazotrophic Communities

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Nitrogen (N) shortage poses a great challenge to the implementation of in situ bioremediation practices in mining-contaminated sites. Diazotrophs can fix atmospheric N2 into a bioavailable form to plants and microorganisms inhabiting adverse habitats. Increasing numbers of studies mainly focused on the diazotrophic communities in the agroecosystems, while those communities in mining areas are still not well understood. This study compared the variations of diazotrophic communities in composition and interactions in the mining areas with different extents of arsenic (As) and antimony (Sb) contamination. As and Sb co-contamination increased alpha diversities and the abundance of nifH encoding the dinitrogenase reductase, while inhibited the diazotrophic interactions and substantially changed the composition of communities. Based on the multiple lines of evidence (e.g., the enrichment analysis of diazotrophs, microbe-microbe network, and random forest regression), six diazotrophs (e.g., Sinorhizobium, Dechloromonas, Trichormus, Herbaspirillum, Desmonostoc, and Klebsiella) were identified as keystone taxa. Environment-microbe network and random forest prediction demonstrated that these keystone taxa were highly correlated with the As and Sb contamination fractions. All these results imply that the above-mentioned diazotrophs may be resistant to metal(loid)s.

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The datasets generated during the current study are available in the NCBI database under the project number PRJNA695517.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant no. U20A20109), GDAS’ Project of Science and Technology Development (grant nos. 2020GDASYL-20200102015, 2021GDASYL-20210103048, 2020GDASYL-20200102014, 2021GDASYL-20210103041, 2019GDASYL-0103052, 2020GDASYL-20200103082, 2019GDASYL-0301002, and 2020GDASYL-20200402003); the Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangzhou (grant no. 202002020072, 201904010366); the High-Level Talents Project of the Pearl River Talents Recruitment Program (grant no. 2017GC010570); and the Local Innovative and Research Teams Project of Guangdong Pearl River Talents Program (grant no. 2017BT01Z176).

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Conceptualization: Weimin Sun, Yongbin Li; Methodology: Yongbin Li, Hanzhi Lin, Pin Gao, Nie Yang; Formal analysis and investigation: Yongbin Li, Hanzhi Lin, Rui Xu; Writing — original draft preparation: Xiaoxu Sun, Baoqin Li, Fuqing Xu, Xiaoyu Wang, Benru Song; Writing — review and editing: Weimin Sun, Yongbin Li, Hanzhi Lin; Funding acquisition: Weimin Sun; Supervision: Weimin Sun.

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Li, Y., Lin, H., Gao, P. et al. Synergistic Impacts of Arsenic and Antimony Co-contamination on Diazotrophic Communities. Microb Ecol 84, 44–58 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-021-01824-6

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