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Abundance and pigment type composition of picocyanobacteria in Barguzin Bay, Lake Baikal

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In Lake Baikal, picocyanobacteria are the most important primary producers during the summer. Freshwater picocyanobacteria are discriminated into either the phycoerythrin (PE)-rich or the phycocyanin (PC)-rich types according to their pigment composition. The distributions of these two types of picocyanobacteria were investigated in Barguzin Bay. The PC-rich type accounted for >98% of the total picocyanobacteria at the station near the shore of the bay where river water flows directly in. In the offshore area of the lake, all of the picocyanobacteria cells were of the PE-rich type. In addition, the occurrence of the PC-rich type was restricted to the station, where the attenuation coefficient exceeded 0.25 m−1. Near the shore, where the turbidity was high (>1 NTU), the cell densities of both the PE- and PC-rich types increased away from the river mouth. This indicates that the PC-rich type cells grow near the shore of the bay where turbidity is high. Since the PC-rich type could not grow well when cells were incubated in offshore lake water, restricted distribution of the PC-rich type could also be explained by their growth capability. The present study clearly demonstrated the shift in the pigment type composition of picocyanobacteria from the coastal to the pelagic zone of Lake Baikal. The co-existence of the two pigment types probably enables the abundance of the picocyanobacterial community to be stable over a broader range of environmental conditions than would be possible for a single pigment type.

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to Prof. A. Turner for his correction of the English in this paper and his constructive comments on the manuscript. This study was supported, in part, by JSPS project no. 14255015 and KOPRI project no. PE06060.

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  1. Center for Marine Environmental Studies, Ehime University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Matsuyama, 790-8577, Japan

    Toshiya Katano

  2. Department of Life Science, Hanyang University, Seoul, 133-791, Korea

    Toshiya Katano & Myung-Soo Han

  3. Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime University, 3-5-7 Tarumi, Matsuyama, 790-8566, Japan

    Shin-ichi Nakano

  4. School of Environmental Science, University of Shiga Prefecture, 3165 Hassaka-cho, Hikone, Shiga, 522-0057, Japan

    Osamu Mitamura, Haruko Yoshida, Hisayuki Azumi & Yoshiki Matsuura

  5. Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, 4-5-7 Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-8477, Japan

    Yuji Tanaka & Hiraku Maezono

  6. Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, 1-4-12 Koshirokawa-cho, Yamagata, 990-8560, Yamagata, Japan

    Yasuhiro Satoh & Takeshi Satoh

  7. School of Human Science and Environment, University of Hyogo, 1-1-12, Hon-cho, Shinzaike, Himeji, Hyogo, 670-0092, Japan

    Yuko Sugiyama

  8. Faculty of Geo-Environmental Science, Rissho University, 1700 Magechi kumagaya, Saitama, 360-0194, Japan

    Yasunori Watanabe

  9. Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai, Nada-ku, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan

    Tetsuro Mimura

  10. Faculty of Integrated Human Studies, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Nihonmatsu-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8501, Japan

    Yuki Akagashi, Hiroshi Machida & Masahito Sugiyama

  11. Limnological Institute, Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences, Ulan-Botorskaya, Irkutsk, Russia

    Valentin V. Drucker, Irina Tikhonova & Olga Belykh

  12. Baikal Museum, Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences, Ulan-Botorskaya, Listvyanka, Russia

    Vladimir A. Fialkov

  13. Korea Polar Research Institute, Get Pearl Tower, 7-50 Sondo Techopark, Songdo-dong, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, 406-840, Korea

    Sung-Ho Kang

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Katano, T., Nakano, Si., Mitamura, O. et al. Abundance and pigment type composition of picocyanobacteria in Barguzin Bay, Lake Baikal. Limnology 9, 105–114 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10201-008-0239-3

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