RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Insights on the importance of salinity from the first cultured freshwater SAR11 (LD12) representative
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 093567
DO 10.1101/093567
A1 Michael W. Henson
A1 V. Celeste Lanclos
A1 J. Cameron Thrash
YR 2016
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/12/13/093567.abstract
AB Bacterioplankton of the SAR11 clade dominate aquatic ecosystems but knowledge of their freshwater members remains limited due to a lack of cultured representatives. Here, we report the first isolate from the freshwater SAR11 subclade lllb, a.k.a. LD12, obtained from surface waters in Lake Borgne, a lagoon on the southeastern coast of Louisiana. Consistent with pervasive ecological data, strain LSUCC0530 is highly restricted to growth at low salinities. Comparison of its distribution with the sister clade subclade llla, however, suggests that niche differentiation between sister taxa in coastal environments may be driven by more than salinity alone.