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Article Dans Une Revue Limnology and Oceanography: Methods Année : 2024

A novel method to sample individual marine snow particles for downstream molecular analyses

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Abstract The ocean–atmosphere exchange of carbon largely depends on the balance between carbon export of particulate organic carbon (POC) as sinking marine particles, and POC remineralization by attached microbial communities. Despite the vast spectrum of types, sources, ages, shapes, and composition of individual sinking particles, they are usually considered as a bulk together with their associated microbial communities. This limits our mechanistic understanding of the biological carbon pump (BCP) and its feedback on the global carbon cycle. We established a method to sample individual particles while preserving their shape, structure, and nucleic acids by placing a jellified RNA‐fixative at the bottom of drifting sediment traps. Coupling imaging of individual particles with associated 16S rRNA analysis reveals that active bacterial communities are highly heterogenous from one particles origin to another. In contrast to lab‐made particles, we found that complex in situ conditions lead to heterogeneity even within the same particle type. Our new method allows to associate patterns of active prokaryotic and functional diversity to particle features, enabling the detection of potential remineralization niches. This new approach will therefore improve our understanding of the BCP and numerical representation in the context of a rapidly changing ocean.
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hal-04285160 , version 1 (17-11-2023)

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Chloé M.J. Baumas, Fatima‐ezzahra Ababou, Marc Garel, Mina Bizic, Danny Ionescu, et al.. A novel method to sample individual marine snow particles for downstream molecular analyses. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 2024, 22, pp.34-46. ⟨10.1002/lom3.10590⟩. ⟨hal-04285160⟩
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