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ArticleScientific reports2020

Diversity of a bacterial community associated with Cliona lobata Hancock and Gelliodes pumila (Lendenfeld, 1887) sponges on the South-East coast of India.

Ramu Meenatchi, Pownraj Brindangnanam, Saqib Hassan, Kumarasamy Rathna, G Seghal Kiran, Joseph Selvin

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Ramu MeenatchiDepartment of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India.
Pownraj BrindangnanamDepartment of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India.
Saqib HassanDepartment of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India.
Kumarasamy RathnaDepartment of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India.
G Seghal KiranDepartment of Food Science and Technology, School of Lifesciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India.
Joseph SelvinDepartment of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry, India. josephselvinss@gmail.com.

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Abstract

Marine sponges are sources of various bioactive metabolites, including several anticancer drugs, produced mainly by sponge-associated microbes. Palk Bay, on the south-east coast of India, is an understudied, highly disturbed reef environment exposed to various anthropogenic and climatic stresses. In recent years, Palk Bay suffered from pollution due to the dumping of untreated domestic sewage, effluents from coastal aquaculture, tourism, salt pans, cultivation of exotic seaweeds, and geogenic heavy-metal pollution, especially arsenic, mercury, cadmium, and lead. Low microbial-abundant sponge species, such as Gelliodes pumila and Cliona lobata, were found to be ubiquitously present in this reef environment. Triplicate samples of each of these sponge species were subjected to Illumina MiSeq sequencing using V3-V4 region-specific primers. In both C. lobata and G. pumila, there was an overwhelming dominance (98 and 99%) of phylum Candidatus Saccharibacteria and Proteobacteria, respectively. The overall number of operational taxonomic units (OTUs) was 68 (40 and 13 OTUs unique to G. pumila and C. lobata, respectively; 15 shared OTUs). Alphaproteobacteria was the most abundant class in both the sponge species. Unclassified species of phylum Candidatus Saccharibacteria from C. lobata and Chelotivorans composti from G. pumila were the most abundant bacterial species. The predominance of Alphaproteobacteria also revealed the occurrence of various xenobiotic-degrading, surfactant-producing bacterial genera in both the sponge species, indirectly indicating the possible polluted reef status of Palk Bay. Studies on sponge microbiomes at various understudied geographical locations might be helpful in predicting the status of reef environments.

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BiodiversityMicrobiotaAlphaproteobacteriaAnimalsArsenicBacteriaCadmiumClimateCluster AnalysisHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingIndiaLeadMercuryMetagenomeMetals, HeavyPhylogenyArsenicCadmiumLeadMercuryMetals, HeavyRNA, Ribosomal, 16S

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