TY - JOUR
T1 - Seasonal dynamics of natural Ostreococcus viral infection at the single cell level using VirusFISH.
AU - M Castillo, Yaiza
AU - Forn, Irene
AU - Yau, Sheree
AU - Moran, Xose Anxelu G.
AU - Alonso-Sáez, Laura
AU - Arandia-Gorostidi, Néstor
AU - Vaqué, Dolors
AU - Sebastián, Marta
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2021-04-08
Acknowledgements: This work was supported by the Spanish projects MEFISTO (CTM2013-43767-P, MINECO) and ALLFLAGS (CTM2016-75083-R, MINECO). YMC was supported by a FPI Spanish fellowship (BES-2014-067849), SY was supported by a Juan de la Cierva fellowship (IJCI-2017-34245) and LAS was supported by a Juan de la Cierva and Ramon y Cajal contract (RYC-2012-11404). MS was supported by a Viera y Clavijo contract funded by the ACIISI and the ULPGC. NAG was supported by Basque Government’s PhD-program fellowship. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest regarding the publication of this article.
PY - 2021/4/5
Y1 - 2021/4/5
N2 - Ostreococcus is a cosmopolitan marine genus of phytoplankton found in mesotrophic and oligotrophic waters, and the smallest free-living eukaryotes known to date, with a cell diameter close to 1 μm. Ostreococcus has been extensively studied as a model system to investigate viral-host dynamics in culture, yet the impact of viruses in naturally occurring populations is largely unknown. Here, we used Virus Fluorescence in situ Hybridization (VirusFISH) to visualize and quantify viral-host dynamics in natural populations of Ostreococcus during a seasonal cycle in the central Cantabrian Sea (Southern Bay of Biscay). Ostreococcus were predominantly found during summer and autumn at surface and 50 m depth, in coastal, mid-shelf and shelf waters, representing up to 21% of the picoeukaryotic communities. Viral infection was only detected in surface waters, and its impact was variable but highest from May to July and November to December, when up to half of the population was infected. Metatranscriptomic data available from the mid-shelf station unveiled that the Ostreococcus population was dominated by the species O. lucimarinus. This work represents a proof of concept that the VirusFISH technique can be used to quantify the impact of viruses on targeted populations of key microbes from complex natural communities. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
AB - Ostreococcus is a cosmopolitan marine genus of phytoplankton found in mesotrophic and oligotrophic waters, and the smallest free-living eukaryotes known to date, with a cell diameter close to 1 μm. Ostreococcus has been extensively studied as a model system to investigate viral-host dynamics in culture, yet the impact of viruses in naturally occurring populations is largely unknown. Here, we used Virus Fluorescence in situ Hybridization (VirusFISH) to visualize and quantify viral-host dynamics in natural populations of Ostreococcus during a seasonal cycle in the central Cantabrian Sea (Southern Bay of Biscay). Ostreococcus were predominantly found during summer and autumn at surface and 50 m depth, in coastal, mid-shelf and shelf waters, representing up to 21% of the picoeukaryotic communities. Viral infection was only detected in surface waters, and its impact was variable but highest from May to July and November to December, when up to half of the population was infected. Metatranscriptomic data available from the mid-shelf station unveiled that the Ostreococcus population was dominated by the species O. lucimarinus. This work represents a proof of concept that the VirusFISH technique can be used to quantify the impact of viruses on targeted populations of key microbes from complex natural communities. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/668586
UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1462-2920.15504
U2 - 10.1111/1462-2920.15504
DO - 10.1111/1462-2920.15504
M3 - Article
C2 - 33817943
SN - 1462-2912
JO - Environmental microbiology
JF - Environmental microbiology
ER -