Morphology captures toxicity in Microcystis aeruginosa complex: Evidence from a wide environmental gradient ✰
Harmful Algae, ISSN: 1568-9883, Vol: 97, Page: 101854
2020
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Article Description
Blooms of the Microcystis aeruginosa complex (MAC) consist of mixtures of toxin-producing and non-toxin-producing populations, but the environmental conditions that determine their relative abundance and shift are not clear. Morphological traits reflect the responses of MAC organisms to environmental changes, thus they could be useful to improve the predictability of the abundance of both toxic and nontoxic populations. In this work, the response of MAC toxic populations to environmental conditions and their relationship with morphology (size of organisms) were investigated in different water bodies (reservoir, river, and estuary) covering wide salinity (0–33) and temperature (10–36 °C) gradients. Sub-surface water samples were collected and divided into 4 size classes (mesh size 〈20 µm, 20–60 µm, 60–150 µm and〉 150 µm) and three toxicity proxies were assessed ( mcyE gene and transcripts copy numbers and microcystin concentration) for each size-class. For all the size-classes, the logarithm of the number of mcyE gene copies per sample was proportional to the logarithm of the corresponding biovolume fraction, showing that MAC biovolume is a good indicator of toxicity potential. When toxicity was analyzed through mcyE transcript abundance and microcystin concentration, the largest size fraction (>150 µm) showed the highest toxicity values of both proxies. Nevertheless, mcyE transcription and toxin production per cell were higher in the colonies retained in the 60 to 150 µm size fractions, followed by single cells (<20 µm). At the reservoir, where environmental variability is low, the total abundance of mcyE gene copies was significantly explained by MAC biovolume, regardless of the environmental conditions. However, when data from the reservoir to the estuary were modeled, biovolume and temperature (with a minor contribution of salinity and wind intensity) were selected in the best models. According to these results, the size distribution of MAC biovolume appears as a good predictor of active toxin production, being the colonies in the 60–150 µm size fraction good indicators of higher toxicity. These results can be used to predict MAC toxicity based on the size structure of the community.
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1568988320301335; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2020.101854; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85086744263&origin=inward; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32732048; https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1568988320301335; https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2020.101854
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