Antibiotic-induced change of bacterial communities associated with the copepod Nitocra spinipes.

Environmental pressures, such as physical factors, diet and contaminants may affect interactions between microbial symbionts and their multicellular hosts. Despite obvious relevance, effects of antimicrobial contaminants on host-symbiont relations in non-target aquatic organisms are largely unknown....

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Autores principales: Anna Edlund, Karin Ek, Magnus Breitholtz, Elena Gorokhova
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:2077d117c5f94e08b626aa109b287b912021-11-18T07:25:27ZAntibiotic-induced change of bacterial communities associated with the copepod Nitocra spinipes.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0033107https://doaj.org/article/2077d117c5f94e08b626aa109b287b912012-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22427962/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Environmental pressures, such as physical factors, diet and contaminants may affect interactions between microbial symbionts and their multicellular hosts. Despite obvious relevance, effects of antimicrobial contaminants on host-symbiont relations in non-target aquatic organisms are largely unknown. We show that exposure to antibiotics had negative effects on survival and juvenile development of the copepod Nitocra spinipes and caused significant alterations in copepod-associated bacterial communities. The significant positive correlations between indices of copepod development and bacterial diversity indicate that disruption of the microflora was likely to be an important factor behind retarded juvenile development in the experimental animals. Moreover, as evidenced by ribotype distribution in the bacterial clone libraries, the exposure to antibiotics caused a shift in dominance from Betaproteobacteria to Cardinium bacteria; the latter have been shown to cause reproductive manipulations in various terrestrial arthropods. Thus, in addition to providing evidence that the antibiotic-induced perturbation of the microbial community associates with reductions in fitness-related traits of the host, this study is the first record of a copepod serving as a host for endosymbiotic Cardinium. Taken together, our results suggest that (1) antimicrobial substances and possibly other stressors can affect micobiome and symbiont-mediated interactions in copepods and other hosts, and (2) Cardinium endosymbionts may occur in other copepods and affect reproduction of their hosts.Anna EdlundKarin EkMagnus BreitholtzElena GorokhovaPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 7, Iss 3, p e33107 (2012)
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Anna Edlund
Karin Ek
Magnus Breitholtz
Elena Gorokhova
Antibiotic-induced change of bacterial communities associated with the copepod Nitocra spinipes.
description Environmental pressures, such as physical factors, diet and contaminants may affect interactions between microbial symbionts and their multicellular hosts. Despite obvious relevance, effects of antimicrobial contaminants on host-symbiont relations in non-target aquatic organisms are largely unknown. We show that exposure to antibiotics had negative effects on survival and juvenile development of the copepod Nitocra spinipes and caused significant alterations in copepod-associated bacterial communities. The significant positive correlations between indices of copepod development and bacterial diversity indicate that disruption of the microflora was likely to be an important factor behind retarded juvenile development in the experimental animals. Moreover, as evidenced by ribotype distribution in the bacterial clone libraries, the exposure to antibiotics caused a shift in dominance from Betaproteobacteria to Cardinium bacteria; the latter have been shown to cause reproductive manipulations in various terrestrial arthropods. Thus, in addition to providing evidence that the antibiotic-induced perturbation of the microbial community associates with reductions in fitness-related traits of the host, this study is the first record of a copepod serving as a host for endosymbiotic Cardinium. Taken together, our results suggest that (1) antimicrobial substances and possibly other stressors can affect micobiome and symbiont-mediated interactions in copepods and other hosts, and (2) Cardinium endosymbionts may occur in other copepods and affect reproduction of their hosts.
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author Anna Edlund
Karin Ek
Magnus Breitholtz
Elena Gorokhova
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Karin Ek
Magnus Breitholtz
Elena Gorokhova
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title Antibiotic-induced change of bacterial communities associated with the copepod Nitocra spinipes.
title_short Antibiotic-induced change of bacterial communities associated with the copepod Nitocra spinipes.
title_full Antibiotic-induced change of bacterial communities associated with the copepod Nitocra spinipes.
title_fullStr Antibiotic-induced change of bacterial communities associated with the copepod Nitocra spinipes.
title_full_unstemmed Antibiotic-induced change of bacterial communities associated with the copepod Nitocra spinipes.
title_sort antibiotic-induced change of bacterial communities associated with the copepod nitocra spinipes.
publisher Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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