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    Urea Uptake And Carbon Fixation By Marine Pelagic Bacteria And Archaea During The Arctic Summer And Winter Seasons

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    2014-10
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    Connelly, Tara L.
    Baer, Steven E.
    Cooper, Joshua T.
    Bronk, Deborah A.
    Wawrik, Boris
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    Abstract
    How Arctic climate change might translate into alterations of biogeochemical cycles of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) with respect to inorganic and organic N utilization is not well understood. This study combined N-15 uptake rate measurements for ammonium, nitrate, and urea with N-15-and C-13-based DNA stable-isotope probing (SIP). The objective was to identify active bacterial and archeal plankton and their role in N and C uptake during the Arctic summer and winter seasons. We hypothesized that bacteria and archaea would successfully compete for nitrate and urea during the Arctic winter but not during the summer, when phytoplankton dominate the uptake of these nitrogen sources. Samples were collected at a coastal station near Barrow, AK, during August and January. During both seasons, ammonium uptake rates were greater than those for nitrate or urea, and nitrate uptake rates remained lower than those for ammonium or urea. SIP experiments indicated a strong seasonal shift of bacterial and archaeal N utilization from ammonium during the summer to urea during the winter but did not support a similar seasonal pattern of nitrate utilization. Analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences obtained from each SIP fraction implicated marine group I Crenarchaeota (MGIC) as well as Betaproteobacteria, Firmicutes, SAR11, and SAR324 in N uptake from urea during the winter. Similarly, C-13 SIP data suggested dark carbon fixation for MGIC, as well as for several proteobacterial lineages and the Firmicutes. These data are consistent with urea-fueled nitrification by polar archaea and bacteria, which may be advantageous under dark conditions.
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    Marine Science
    Subject
    coastal surface waters
    cape bathurst polynya
    climate-change
    heterotrophic bacteria
    solvent-extraction
    nutrient dynamics
    ocean
    phytoplankton
    isotope
    nitrogen
    biotechnology & applied microbiology
    microbiology
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    http://hdl.handle.net/2152/31058
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    Connelly, Tara L., Baer, Steven E., Cooper, Joshua T., Bronk, Deborah A., Wawrik, Boris, >Urea Uptake and Carbon Fixation by Marine Pelagic Bacteria and Archaea during the Arctic Summer and Winter Seasons,> Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2014 vol. 80 no. 19 6013-6022. doi: 10.1128/AEM.01431-14.
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