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Limited influence of marine sediment lyophilization on prokaryotic community structure assessed via amplicon sequencing: an example from environmentally contrasted sediment layers in Toulon harbor (France)

Benjamin Misson
Cédric Garnier
Alexandre J Poulain
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Sediment lyophilization is a common process that allows for long-term conservation and sharing of marine sediments for multiple downstream analyses. Although it is often used for geochemical studies, the effects of lyophilization on prokaryotic taxonomic diversity assessment remained to be assessed. Here, we tested the effect of lyophilization on microbial diversity assessment using three sediment layers corresponding to various sediment ages and chemical contamination levels sampled from a marine Mediterranean harbor. Duplicate DNA samples were extracted from wet frozen or lyophilized sediments, and 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequence variants were analyzed. We detected changes in community structure over depth linked to both dominant and less abundant taxa whether sediments were lyophilized or not. Data from both wet frozen and lyophilized sediments led us to conclude that historical chemical contamination of the sediment of Toulon Bay did not appear to be the main environmental variable shaping prokaryotic community structure on the vertical dimension, but that sediment diagenesis was. We conclude that sediment lyophilization is compatible with marine biogeochemical and ecotoxicological studies but that caution should be used when discussing small variations among samples.
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hal-03191488 , version 1 (07-04-2021)

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Benjamin Misson, Cédric Garnier, Alexandre J Poulain. Limited influence of marine sediment lyophilization on prokaryotic community structure assessed via amplicon sequencing: an example from environmentally contrasted sediment layers in Toulon harbor (France). PeerJ, 2021, 9, pp.e11075. ⟨10.7717/peerj.11075⟩. ⟨hal-03191488⟩
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