ArticleFolia microbiologica2025
Physicochemistry and comparative metagenomics of a tropical estuary persistently inundated with anthropogenic pollutants.
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Abstract
The physicochemistry, metabolic properties, and microbial community structure of a tropical estuary persistently inundated with anthropogenic pollutants were elucidated using diverse analytical tools and a shotgun metagenomics approach. The physicochemistry of the Awoye estuary surface water (AEW) and sediment (AES) revealed higher values in the sediment for most of the parameters analyzed, while aside from copper and zinc, the concentrations of the detected heavy metals (Cd, Cr, Pb, Fe, As, Ni, Hg, Mn, Se) in the water and sediment were higher than the acceptable thresholds. Hydrocarbon content analysis revealed increasingly high concentrations of high molecular weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (HMW PAHs) in the sediment. Structurally, the predominant taxa in the AEW metagenome are Proteobacteria (50.35%), Alphaproteobacteria (43.31%), Brevundimonas (49.96%), and Leptolyngbya boryana (14.93%), while in the sediment (AES) metagenome, Proteobacteria (53.03%), Gammaproteobacteria (28.66%), Azospirillum (6.51%), and Acidihalobacter prosperus (7.56%) were preponderant. Statistical analysis of the two microbiomes (AEW, AES) revealed significant statistical differences (P < 0.05) at all the hierarchical levels. Functional characterization of the two metagenomes revealed extensive adaptations of the sediment microbiome to various environmental stressors as evident in the high numbers of putative genes involved in the degradation of diverse classes of aromatic hydrocarbons, efflux, detoxification, and transport of heavy metals, and metabolism of organic/inorganic nutrients. Findings from this study revealed that the estuary sediment is the sink for most of the anthropogenic pollutants and harbors the more adapted microbiome that could serve as a potential bioresource for the bioremediation of the perturbed estuary.
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