Aqueous Geochemical Controls on the Sestonic Microbial Community in Lakes Michigan and Superior.

Asha Rani, Ravi Ranjan, Solidea M C Bonina, Mahsa Izadmehr, John P Giesy, An Li, Neil C Sturchio, Karl J Rockne

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Article in Microorganisms, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Eukaryotic Microbiome of Lake Sturgeon Eggs, and Identification of Chemical Thresholds for Infection Control.Microbial ecology · 2025
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Asha RaniDepartment of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA.

Ravi RanjanGenomics Resource Laboratory, Institute for Applied Life Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.

Solidea M C BoninaDepartment of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA.

Mahsa IzadmehrDepartment of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA.

John P GiesyDepartment of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences and Toxicology Centre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5C5, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-1931-9962

An LiSchool of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8476-8783

Neil C SturchioDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA.

Karl J RockneDepartment of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4976-4955

Funding

Discovery Grant from the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada 326415-07US EPA Great Lakes National Program Office GL-00E00538Western Economic Diversification Canada 6578, 6807 and 000012711

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite being the largest freshwater lake system in the world, relatively little is known about the sestonic microbial community structure in the Laurentian Great Lakes. The goal of this research was to better understand this ecosystem using high-throughput sequencing of microbial communities as a function of water depth at six locations in the westernmost Great Lakes of Superior and Michigan. The water column was characterized by gradients in temperature, dissolved oxygen (DO), pH, and other physicochemical parameters with depth. Mean nitrate concentrations were 32 μmol/L, with only slight variation within and between the lakes, and with depth. Mean available phosphorus was 0.07 μmol/L, resulting in relatively large N:P ratios (97:1) indicative of P limitation. Abundances of the phyla Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes, Cyanobacteria, Thaumarchaeota, and Verrucomicrobia differed significantly among the Lakes.

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16S rRNAarchaeaLake MichiganLake SuperiorLaurentian Great Lakesmicrobial diversitymicrobiome

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PMID36838469

DOI10.3390/microorganisms11020504

PMCPMC9963676

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