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New insights in bacterial and eukaryotic diversity of microbial mats inhabiting exploited and abandoned salterns at the Ré Island (France)

Hélène Agogué
Isabelle Lanneluc

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In order to understand the effect of human practices on microbial mats organisation, the study aimed to investigate the biodiversity within microbial mats from exploited and abandoned salterns. Despite several attempts, archaeal 16S rRNA gene fragment sequences were not obtained, indicating that microbial mats were probably dominated by Bacteria with very low abundance of Archaea (< 1%). Thus, the study compared the bacterial and meiofaunal diversity of microbial mats from abandoned and exploited salterns. The higher salinity (101 ± 3.7 psu vs. 51.1 ± 0.7 psu; Welch t-test p < 0.05) of the exploited site maintained lower bacterial diversity in comparison to the abandoned site where the salinity gradient was no longer maintained. However, the microbial mats exhibited similar bacterial class composition while the eukaryotic diversity was significantly higher in the exploited saltern. The abandoned saltern was dominated by sulfate-reducing bacteria and Nematoda, while the exploited saltern was characterized by the presence of halophilic bacteria belonging to Marinobacter, Salinivibrio and Rhodohalobacter genera, and the larger abundance of Hypotrichia (ciliates). Such bacterial and eukaryotic diversity difference might be explained by human actions for salt recovery in exploited salterns such as scraping the surface of microbial mat and increasing salinity renewing the microbial mat each year. Such action decreases the bacterial diversity changing the food web structure that favour the presence of a larger diversity of eukaryotic organisms. Our study provides new insights on microbial mat communities inhabiting salterns, especially the consequences of abandoning saltern exploitation.
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hal-03327781 , version 1 (30-08-2021)

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Camille Mazière, Hélène Agogué, Cristiana Cravo-Laureau, Christine Cagnon, Isabelle Lanneluc, et al.. New insights in bacterial and eukaryotic diversity of microbial mats inhabiting exploited and abandoned salterns at the Ré Island (France). Microbiological Research, 2021, 252, ⟨10.1016/j.micres.2021.126854⟩. ⟨hal-03327781⟩
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