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DNA- and RNA- Derived Fungal Communities in Subsurface Aquifers Only Partly Overlap but React Similarly to Environmental Factors.

Ali Nawaz, Witoon Purahong, Martina Herrmann, Kirsten Küsel, François Buscot, Tesfaye Wubet

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Article in Microorganisms, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Ali NawazHelmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Department of Soil Ecology, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany. ali.nawaz@ufz.de.ORCID 0000-0002-4413-6685
Witoon PurahongHelmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Department of Soil Ecology, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany. witoon.purahong@ufz.de.ORCID 0000-0002-4113-6428
Martina HerrmannInstitute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Dornburger Straße 159, 07743 Jena, Germany. martina.herrmann@uni-jena.de.
Kirsten KüselInstitute of Biodiversity, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Dornburger Straße 159, 07743 Jena, Germany. kirsten.kuesel@uni-jena.de.
François BuscotHelmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Department of Soil Ecology, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany. francois.buscot@ufz.de.
Tesfaye WubetHelmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Department of Soil Ecology, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany. tesfaye.wubet@ufz.de.

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Collaborative Research Center AquaDiva (CRC 1076 AquaDiva)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent advances in high-throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies have revolutionized our understanding of microbial diversity and composition in relation to their environment. HTS-based characterization of metabolically active (RNA-derived) and total (DNA-derived) fungal communities in different terrestrial habitats has revealed profound differences in both richness and community compositions. However, such DNA- and RNA-based HTS comparisons are widely missing for fungal communities of groundwater aquifers in the terrestrial biogeosphere. Therefore, in this study, we extracted DNA and RNA from groundwater samples of two pristine aquifers in the Hainich CZE and employed paired-end Illumina sequencing of the fungal nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) region to comprehensively test difference/similarities in the "total" and "active" fungal communities. We found no significant differences in the species richness between the DNA- and RNA-derived fungal communities, but the relative abundances of various fungal operational taxonomic units (OTUs) appeared to differ. We also found the same set of environmental parameters to shape the "total" and "active" fungal communities in the targeted aquifers. Furthermore, our comparison also underlined that about 30%-40% of the fungal OTUs were only detected in RNA-derived communities. This implies that the active fungal communities analyzed by HTS methods in the subsurface aquifers are actually not a subset of supposedly total fungal communities. In general, our study highlights the importance of differentiating the potential (DNA-derived) and expressed (RNA-derived) members of the fungal communities in aquatic ecosystems.

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active fungiaquatic fungiaquifersillumina sequencingITSsubsurface biospheretotal fungi

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