Urbanization alters soil bacterial communities in southern China coastal cities

Fu, Bing; Fang, Chang; Xia, Jun; Pan, Sentao; Zhou, Lei; Peng, Yisheng; Yan, Yunrong; Yang, Yan; He, Yuqing; Chen, Shijun; Yang, Huirong; Wang, Jun

doi:10.1016/j.ecoenv.2022.114492

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“…At the organismal level, urbanization and pollution are known to influence the physiology, behaviour and life history of diverse marine animals (Elizabeth Alter et al, 2021;Morroni et al, 2023;Weis, 2014). These effects can also be observed in the complex assembly of animal-associated microbial communities and the functions they provide to their hosts (Fu et al, 2023;Pei et al, 2022;Q. Wang et al, 2018;Wei et al, 2022).…”

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The interplay between host-specificity and habitat-filtering influences sea cucumber microbiota across an environmental gradient of pollution

Chung,

Cheung,

Arromrak

et al. 2024

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Environmental gradients can influence morpho-physiological and life-history differences in natural populations. It is unclear, however, to what extent such gradients can also modulate phenotypic differences in other organismal characteristics such as the structure and function of host-associated microbial communities. In this work, we addressed this question by assessing intra-specific variation in the diversity, structure and function of environmental-associated (sediment and water) and animal-associated (skin and gut) microbiota along an environmental gradient of pollution in one of the most urbanized coastal areas in the world. Using the tropical sea cucumber Holothuria leucospilota, we tested the interplay between deterministic (e.g., environmental/host filtering) and stochastic (e.g., random microbial dispersal) processes underpinning host-microbiome interactions and microbial assemblages. Overall, our results indicate that microbial communities are complex and vary in structure and function between the environment and the animal hosts. However, these differences are modulated by the level of pollution across the gradient with marked clines in alpha and beta diversity. Yet, such clines and overall differences showed opposite directions when comparing environmental- and animal-associated microbial communities. In the sea cucumbers, intrinsic characteristics (e.g., body compartments, biochemistry composition, immune systems), may underpin the observed intra-individual differences in the associated microbiomes, and their divergence from the environmental source. Such regulation favours specific microbial functional pathways that may play an important role in the survival and physiology of the animal host, particularly in high polluted areas. These findings suggest that the interplay between both, environmental and host filtering underpins microbial community assembly in H. leucospilota along the pollution gradient in Hong Kong.

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The interplay between host-specificity and habitat-filtering influences sea cucumber microbiota across an environmental gradient of pollution

Chung,

Cheung,

Arromrak

et al. 2024

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“…A Venn diagram was used to display the shared and unique OTUs among the groups. The phylogenetic investigation of communities by the reconstruction of unobserved states (PICRUSt) based on the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) databases and Functional Annotation of Prokaryotic Taxa (FAPROTAX) was employed to predict the function [21]. A principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) with a permutation multivariate analysis of variance (Adonis) was applied to describe beta diversity of predicted functions.…”

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Gender Impacted Gut Microbiota and Growth Performance in the Blotched Snakehead (Channa maculata)

Fang,

Zeng,

Chen

et al. 2024

Microorganisms

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The blotched snakehead Channa maculata is an important economical freshwater species in East Asia. However, there has been relatively little research conducted on the correlation between gender and gut microbes. In this study, 36 of 1000 blotched snakeheads were randomly selected for growth performance measurement and gut microbiota high-throughput sequencing. Results showed that microbial diversity, composition, and metabolic functions were altered by gender and growth performance except the microbial network. In our study, Proteobacteria were the most abundant phylum, with Fusobacteria showing enrichment in males and Bacteroidetes in females. Notably, phylum Deinococcus-Thermus was identified as a significant biomarker. The Cetobacterium was the most abundant genus-level taxon. Furthermore, gut microbes specializing in the production of gut-healthy substances, such as coenzymes and vitamins, were identified as biomarkers in the fast-growing group. Our investigation highlighted the impact of gender on the composition and abundance of gut microbial biomarkers in both males and females, thereby influencing differential growth performance through the modulation of specific metabolic functions.

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Exploring urban remnant forest soil bacterial diversity responses to woody plant leaf functional traits

Yang,

Wang

2023

Plant Soil

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Urbanization alters soil bacterial communities in southern China coastal cities

Cited by 6 publications

References 35 publications

The interplay between host-specificity and habitat-filtering influences sea cucumber microbiota across an environmental gradient of pollution

The interplay between host-specificity and habitat-filtering influences sea cucumber microbiota across an environmental gradient of pollution

Gender Impacted Gut Microbiota and Growth Performance in the Blotched Snakehead (Channa maculata)

Exploring urban remnant forest soil bacterial diversity responses to woody plant leaf functional traits

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