ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2018
Distribution and Diversity of Rhodopsin-Producing Microbes in the Chesapeake Bay.
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- Planktonic eukaryotes in the Chesapeake Bay: contrasting responses of abundant and rare taxa to estuarine gradients.Microbiology spectrum · 2024Article
- Dinoflagellate Proton-Pump Rhodopsin Genes in Long Island Sound: Diversity and Spatiotemporal Distribution.Microorganisms · 2024Article
- Updated Virophage Taxonomy and Distinction from Polinton-like Viruses.Biomolecules · 2023Article
- Estuarine gradients dictate spatiotemporal variations of microbiome networks in the Chesapeake Bay.Environmental microbiome · 2021Article
- Highly integrated adaptive mechanisms in Spiribacter halalkaliphilus, a bacterium abundant in Chinese soda-saline lakes.Environmental microbiology · 2021Article
- Proteorhodopsin Phototrophy in Antarctic Coastal Waters.mSphere · 2021Article
- Metagenomes, Metatranscriptomes, and Metagenome-Assembled Genomes from Chesapeake and Delaware Bay (USA) Water Samples.Microbiology resource announcements · 2021Article
- Bacterial Indicators Are Ubiquitous Members of Pelagic Microbiome in Anthropogenically Impacted Coastal Ecosystem.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- Variation in genomic traits of microbial communities among ecosystems.FEMS microbes · 2021Article
- Microbial rhodopsins are major contributors to the solar energy captured in the sea.Science advances · 2019Article
- Influence of Light on Particulate Organic Matter Utilization by Attached and Free-Living Marine Bacteria.Frontiers in microbiology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Although sunlight is an abundant source of energy in surface environments, less than 0.5% of the available photons are captured by (bacterio)chlorophyll-dependent photosynthesis in plants and bacteria. Metagenomic data indicate that 30 to 60% of the bacterial genomes in some environments encode rhodopsins, retinal-based photosystems found in heterotrophs, suggesting that sunlight may provide energy for more life than previously suspected. However, quantitative data on the number of cells that produce rhodopsins in environmental systems are limited. Here, we use total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy to show that the number of free-living microbes that produce rhodopsins increases along the salinity gradient in the Chesapeake Bay. We correlate this functional data with environmental data to show that rhodopsin abundance is positively correlated with salinity and with indicators of active heterotrophy during the day. Metagenomic and metatranscriptomic data suggest that the microbial rhodopsins in the low-salinity samples are primarily found in
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