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Schoenle, Alexandra ORCID: 0000-0002-0047-8077, Hohlfeld, Manon ORCID: 0000-0001-7777-4715, Hermanns, Karoline, Mahe, Frederic, de Vargas, Colomban, Nitsche, Frank and Arndt, Hartmut (2021). High and specific diversity of protists in the deep-sea basins dominated by diplonemids, kinetoplastids, ciliates and foraminiferans. Commun. Biol., 4 (1). BERLIN: NATURE PORTFOLIO. ISSN 2399-3642

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Abstract

Alexandra Schoenle et al. use DNA metabarcoding and cultivation-based surveys of 11 regions in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans encompassing the bathyal, abyssal, and hadal zones to identify the role of deep-sea heterotrophic protists relative to other trophic levels. Their results demonstrate that protistan species richness was locally specific and greater than that of metazoans and that measured in pelagic samples, and that deep-sea protist communities are relatively distinct from their pelagic counterparts. Heterotrophic protists (unicellular eukaryotes) form a major link from bacteria and algae to higher trophic levels in the sunlit ocean. Their role on the deep seafloor, however, is only fragmentarily understood, despite their potential key function for global carbon cycling. Using the approach of combined DNA metabarcoding and cultivation-based surveys of 11 deep-sea regions, we show that protist communities, mostly overlooked in current deep-sea foodweb models, are highly specific, locally diverse and have little overlap to pelagic communities. Besides traditionally considered foraminiferans, tiny protists including diplonemids, kinetoplastids and ciliates were genetically highly diverse considerably exceeding the diversity of metazoans. Deep-sea protists, including many parasitic species, represent thus one of the most diverse biodiversity compartments of the Earth system, forming an essential link to metazoans.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Schoenle, Alexandra UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-0047-8077 UNSPECIFIED Hohlfeld, Manon UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-7777-4715 UNSPECIFIED Hermanns, Karoline UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Mahe, Frederic UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED de Vargas, Colomban UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Nitsche, Frank UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Arndt, Hartmut UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-595113
DOI:	10.1038/s42003-021-02012-5
Journal or Publication Title:	Commun. Biol.
Volume:	4
Number:	1
Date:	2021
Publisher:	NATURE PORTFOLIO
Place of Publication:	BERLIN
ISSN:	2399-3642
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language WATER-COLUMN; EUKARYOTES; RNA; SURFACE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITIES; PARADIGMS; EVOLUTION; ABUNDANCE; SEDIMENTS Multiple languages Biology; Multidisciplinary Sciences Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/59511