Global freshwater distribution of Telonemia protists

Boukheloua, Roudaina; Mukherjee, Indranil; Park, Hongjae; Šimek, Karel; Kasalický, Vojtěch; Ngochera, Maxon; Grossart, Hans-Peter; Picazo-Mozo, Antonio; Camacho, Antonio; Cabello-Yeves, Pedro J; Rodriguez-Valera, Francisco; Callieri, Cristiana; Andrei, Adrian-Stefan; Pernthaler, Jakob; Posch, Thomas; Alfreider, Albin; Sommaruga, Ruben; Hahn, Martin W; Sonntag, Bettina; López-García, Purificación; Moreira, David; Jardillier, Ludwig; Lepère, Cécile; Biderre-Petit, Corinne; Bednarska, Anna; Ślusarczyk, Mirosław; Tóth, Viktor R; Banciu, Horia L; Kormas, Konstantinos; Orlić, Sandi; Šantić, Danijela (2024) Global freshwater distribution of Telonemia protists. The ISME Journal, 18 (1). ISSN 1751-7362

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Abstract

Telonemia are one of the oldest identified marine protists that for most part of their history have been recognized as a distinct incertae sedis lineage. Today, their evolutionary proximity to the SAR supergroup (Stramenopiles, Alveolates, and Rhizaria) is firmly established. However, their ecological distribution and importance as a natural predatory flagellate, especially in freshwater food webs, still remain unclear. To unravel the distribution and diversity of the phylum Telonemia in freshwater habitats, we examined over a thousand freshwater metagenomes from all over the world. In addition, to directly quantify absolute abundances, we analyzed 407 samples from 97 lakes and reservoirs using Catalyzed Reporter Deposition-Fluorescence in situ Hybridization (CARD-FISH). We recovered Telonemia 18S rRNA gene sequences from hundreds of metagenomic samples from a wide variety of habitats, indicating a global distribution of this phylum. However, even after this extensive sampling, our phylogenetic analysis did not reveal any new major clades, suggesting current molecular surveys are near to capturing the full diversity within this group. We observed excellent concordance between CARD-FISH analyses and estimates of abundances from metagenomes. Both approaches suggest that Telonemia are largely absent from shallow lakes and prefer to inhabit the colder hypolimnion of lakes and reservoirs in the Northern Hemisphere, where they frequently bloom, reaching 10%–20% of the total heterotrophic flagellate population, making them important predatory flagellates in the freshwater food web.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	freshwater lakes; microbial food webs; predatory flagellate; Telonemia; CARD-FISH; metagenomics
Subjects:	NATURAL SCIENCES > Biology > Microbiology NATURAL SCIENCES > Biology > Ecology
Divisions:	Division of Materials Chemistry
Depositing User:	Lorena Palameta
Date Deposited:	29 Oct 2024 12:21
URI:	http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/9215
DOI:	10.1093/ismejo/wrae177

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