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The Bay of Bengal exposes abundant photosynthetic picoplankton and newfound diversity along salinity‐driven gradients

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Abstract The Bay of Bengal (BoB) is a 2,600,000 km 2 expanse in the Indian Ocean upon which many humans rely. However, the primary producers underpinning food chains here remain poorly characterized. We examined phytoplankton abundance and diversity along strong BoB latitudinal and vertical salinity gradients—which have low temperature variation (27–29°C) between the surface and subsurface chlorophyll maximum (SCM). In surface waters, Prochlorococcus averaged 11.7 ± 4.4 × 10 4 cells ml −1 , predominantly HLII, whereas LLII and ‘rare’ ecotypes, HLVI and LLVII, dominated in the SCM. Synechococcus averaged 8.4 ± 2.3 × 10 4 cells ml −1 in the surface, declined rapidly with depth, and population structure of dominant Clade II differed between surface and SCM; Clade X was notable at both depths. Across all sites, Ostreococcus Clade OII dominated SCM eukaryotes whereas communities differentiated strongly moving from Arabian Sea‐influenced high salinity (southerly; prasinophytes) to freshwater‐influenced low salinity (northerly; stramenopiles, specifically, diatoms, pelagophytes, and dictyochophytes, plus the prasinophyte Micromonas ) surface waters. Eukaryotic phytoplankton peaked in the south (1.9 × 10 4 cells ml −1 , surface) where a novel Ostreococcus was revealed, named here Ostreococcus bengalensis . We expose dominance of a single picoeukaryote and hitherto ‘rare’ picocyanobacteria at depth in this complex ecosystem where studies suggest picoplankton are replacing larger phytoplankton due to climate change.
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hal-04273232 , version 1 (08-11-2023)

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Jan Strauss, Chang Jae Choi, Jonathan Grone, Fabian Wittmers, Valeria Jimenez, et al.. The Bay of Bengal exposes abundant photosynthetic picoplankton and newfound diversity along salinity‐driven gradients. Environmental Microbiology, 2023, ⟨10.1111/1462-2920.16431⟩. ⟨hal-04273232⟩
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