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Microbial lipids reveal carbon assimilation patterns on hydrothermal sulfide chimneys

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Pjevac,  P.
Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Max Planck Society;

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Peplies,  J.
Microbial Genomics Group, Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Max Planck Society;

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Meyerdierks,  A.
Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Max Planck Society;

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Amann,  R.
Department of Molecular Ecology, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Max Planck Society;

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Reeves, E., Yoshinaga, M., Pjevac, P., Goldenstein, N., Peplies, J., Meyerdierks, A., et al. (2014). Microbial lipids reveal carbon assimilation patterns on hydrothermal sulfide chimneys. Environmental Microbiology, 16(11 Sp. Iss. SI), 3515-3532.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0001-C4E0-4
Abstract
Sulfide chimneys' characteristic of seafloor hydrothermal venting are diverse microbial habitats. C-13/C-12 ratios of microbial lipids have rarely been used to assess carbon assimilation pathways on these structures, despite complementing gene- and culture-based approaches. Here, we integrate analyses of the diversity of intact polar lipids (IPL) and their side-chain C-13 values (C-13(lipid)) with 16S rRNA gene-based phylogeny to examine microbial carbon flow on active and inactive sulfide structures from the Manus Basin. Surficial crusts of active structures, dominated by Epsilonproteobacteria, yield bacterial C-13(lipid) values higher than biomass C-13 (total organic carbon), implicating autotrophy via the reverse tricarboxylic acid cycle. Our data also suggest C-13(lipid) values vary on individual active structures without accompanying microbial diversity changes. Temperature and/or dissolved substrate effects - likely relating to variable advective-diffusive fluxes to chimney exteriors - may be responsible for differing C-13 fractionation during assimilation. In an inactive structure, C-13(lipid) values lower than biomass C-13 and a distinctive IPL and 16S rRNA gene diversity suggest a shift to a more diverse community and an alternate carbon assimilation pathway after venting ceases. We discuss here the potential of IPL and C-13(lipid) analyses to elucidate carbon flow in hydrothermal structures when combined with other molecular tools.