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Thomas, Camille ORCID: 0000-0002-7651-2542, Francke, Alexander, Vogel, Hendrik, Wagner, Bernd and Ariztegui, Daniel ORCID: 0000-0001-7775-5127 (2020). Weak Influence of Paleoenvironmental Conditions on the Subsurface Biosphere of Lake Ohrid over the Last 515 ka. Microorganisms, 8 (11). BASEL: MDPI. ISSN 2076-2607

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Abstract

Lacustrine sediments are widely used to investigate the impact of climatic change on biogeochemical cycling. In these sediments, subsurface microbial communities are major actors of this cycling but can also affect the sedimentary record and overprint the original paleoenvironmental signal. We therefore investigated the subsurface microbial communities of the oldest lake in Europe, Lake Ohrid (North Macedonia, Albania), to assess the potential connection between microbial diversity and past environmental change using 16S rRNA gene sequences. Along the upper ca. 200 m of the DEEP site sediment record spanning ca. 515 thousand years (ka), our results show that Atribacteria, Bathyarchaeia and Gammaproteobacteria structured the community independently from each other. Except for the latter, these taxa are common in deep lacustrine and marine sediments due to their metabolic versatility adapted to low energy environments. Gammaproteobacteria were often co-occurring with cyanobacterial sequences or soil-related OTUs suggesting preservation of ancient DNA from the water column or catchment back to at least 340 ka, particularly in dry glacial intervals. We found significant environmental parameters influencing the overall microbial community distribution, but no strong relationship with given phylotypes and paleoclimatic signals or sediment age. Our results support a weak recording of early diagenetic processes and their actors by bulk prokaryotic sedimentary DNA in Lake Ohrid, replaced by specialized low-energy clades of the deep biosphere and a marked imprint of erosional processes on the subsurface DNA pool of Lake Ohrid.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Thomas, Camille UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-7651-2542 UNSPECIFIED Francke, Alexander UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Vogel, Hendrik UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Wagner, Bernd UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Ariztegui, Daniel UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-7775-5127 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-313040
DOI:	10.3390/microorganisms8111736
Journal or Publication Title:	Microorganisms
Volume:	8
Number:	11
Date:	2020
Publisher:	MDPI
Place of Publication:	BASEL
ISSN:	2076-2607
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language MARINE-SEDIMENTS; MACEDONIA; SEQUENCE; HOLOCENE; BATHYARCHAEOTA; COMMUNITIES; VARIABILITY; RESILIENCE; DIVERSITY; PHYLOGENY Multiple languages Microbiology Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/31304