对 16S rRNA 扩增子数据的分析揭示了环境在决定海洋质体微生物群落中的主要作用。

Analysis of 16S rRNA amplicon data illuminates the major role of environment in determining the marine plastisphere microbial communities.

机构信息

CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Hyderabad Zonal Centre, IICT Campus, Tarnaka, Hyderabad, Telangana, 500007, India.

Indian Institute of Technology, Jammu & Kashmir, Jammu, 181221, India.

出版信息

Environ Monit Assess. 2024 Sep 17;196(10):939. doi: 10.1007/s10661-024-13109-9.

Abstract

Microplastics (MPs) are a potential threat to the marine environment and its associated ecosystem functions. Earlier investigations revealed that the microbiome plays a crucial role in deciding the fate of MPs in the environment. Further studies also highlighted the influences of environment and polymer types on the plastisphere microbiome. Nevertheless, the major factor that determines the plastisphere microbiome remains elusive. Thus, we examined the publicly available marine plastisphere data generated from polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), and polystyrene (PS), collected from three different locations to identify the importance of environment and/or polymer types in shaping the microbiome. The beta diversity analyses showed a clear distinction between samples collected from different locations. The PERMANOVA results illustrated a significant influence of environment and sample type (control/PE/PP/PS) on the microbial communities. However, the influence of sample type on microbial diversity was not significant (P-value > 0.05) when the control samples were removed from the dataset but the environment remained a significant factor (P-value < 0.05). Further, the differential abundance analyses explicitly showed the abundance of many bacterial taxa to be significantly influenced (adjusted P-value < 0.05) by the locations rather than the polymer types. The validation analysis also supports the findings. Thus, this study suggests that both the surrounding environment and polymer types determine the microbial communities on marine MPs, but the role of the environment in shaping the microbial composition is greater than that of polymer types.

摘要

微塑料(MPs)是海洋环境及其相关生态系统功能的潜在威胁。早期的研究表明,微生物组在决定 MPs 在环境中的命运方面起着至关重要的作用。进一步的研究还强调了环境和聚合物类型对塑料圈微生物组的影响。然而,决定塑料圈微生物组的主要因素仍然难以捉摸。因此,我们检查了从三个不同地点收集的来自聚乙烯(PE)、聚丙烯(PP)和聚苯乙烯(PS)的公开可用的海洋塑料圈数据,以确定环境和/或聚合物类型在塑造微生物组方面的重要性。β多样性分析表明,来自不同地点的样本之间存在明显区别。PERMANOVA 结果表明,环境和样本类型(对照/PE/PP/PS)对微生物群落有显著影响。然而,当从数据集删除对照样本时,样本类型对微生物多样性的影响并不显著(P 值>0.05),而环境仍然是一个重要因素(P 值<0.05)。此外,差异丰度分析明确表明,许多细菌类群的丰度受到位置而不是聚合物类型的显著影响(调整后的 P 值<0.05)。验证分析也支持了这一发现。因此,本研究表明,周围环境和聚合物类型都决定了海洋 MPs 上的微生物群落,但环境在塑造微生物组成方面的作用大于聚合物类型。

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