The School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Environ Microbiol. 2014 Sep;16(9):2848-58. doi: 10.1111/1462-2920.12456. Epub 2014 Apr 22.
We know relatively little of the distribution of microbial communities generally. Significant work has examined a range of bacterial communities, but the distribution of microbial eukaryotes is less well characterized. Humans have an ancient association with grape vines (Vitis vinifera) and have been making wine since the dawn of civilization, and fungi drive this natural process. While the molecular biology of certain fungi naturally associated with vines and wines is well characterized, complementary investigations into the ecology of fungi associated with fruiting plants is largely lacking. DNA sequencing technologies allow the direct estimation of microbial diversity from a given sample, avoiding culture-based biases. Here, we use deep community pyrosequencing approaches, targeted at the 26S rRNA gene, to examine the richness and composition of fungal communities associated with grapevines and test for geographical community structure among four major regions in New Zealand (NZ). We find over 200 taxa using this approach, which is 10-fold more than previously recovered using culture-based methods. Our analyses allow us to reject the null hypothesis of homogeneity in fungal species richness and community composition across NZ and reveal significant differences between major areas.
我们对微生物群落的分布了解相对较少。大量的工作已经研究了一系列细菌群落,但微生物真核生物的分布特征还不太清楚。人类与葡萄(Vitis vinifera)有着悠久的联系,并在文明的曙光初现之时就开始酿造葡萄酒,而真菌则推动了这一自然过程。虽然与葡萄藤和葡萄酒相关的某些真菌的分子生物学特征已经很好地描述,但对与结果植物相关的真菌的生态学的互补研究在很大程度上还没有。DNA 测序技术允许直接从给定的样本中估计微生物的多样性,从而避免基于培养的偏见。在这里,我们使用深度群落焦磷酸测序方法,针对 26S rRNA 基因,研究与葡萄藤相关的真菌群落的丰富度和组成,并测试新西兰四个主要地区(NZ)的地理群落结构。我们使用这种方法发现了超过 200 个分类群,这是以前使用基于培养的方法恢复的 10 倍。我们的分析使我们能够拒绝在 NZ 各地真菌物种丰富度和群落组成均匀的零假设,并揭示了主要地区之间的显著差异。