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Symbiosis insights through metagenomic analysis of a microbial consortium

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  • Tanja Woyke

    (DOE Joint Genome Institute
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Genomics Division)

  • Hanno Teeling

    (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology)

  • Natalia N. Ivanova

    (DOE Joint Genome Institute)

  • Marcel Huntemann

    (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology)

  • Michael Richter

    (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology)

  • Frank Oliver Gloeckner

    (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
    International University Bremen)

  • Dario Boffelli

    (DOE Joint Genome Institute
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Genomics Division)

  • Iain J. Anderson

    (DOE Joint Genome Institute)

  • Kerrie W. Barry

    (DOE Joint Genome Institute)

  • Harris J. Shapiro

    (DOE Joint Genome Institute)

  • Ernest Szeto

    (DOE Joint Genome Institute)

  • Nikos C. Kyrpides

    (DOE Joint Genome Institute)

  • Marc Mussmann

    (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology)

  • Rudolf Amann

    (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology)

  • Claudia Bergin

    (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology)

  • Caroline Ruehland

    (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology)

  • Edward M. Rubin

    (DOE Joint Genome Institute
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Genomics Division)

  • Nicole Dubilier

    (Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology)

Abstract

Symbioses between bacteria and eukaryotes are ubiquitous, yet our understanding of the interactions driving these associations is hampered by our inability to cultivate most host-associated microbes. Here we use a metagenomic approach to describe four co-occurring symbionts from the marine oligochaete Olavius algarvensis, a worm lacking a mouth, gut and nephridia. Shotgun sequencing and metabolic pathway reconstruction revealed that the symbionts are sulphur-oxidizing and sulphate-reducing bacteria, all of which are capable of carbon fixation, thus providing the host with multiple sources of nutrition. Molecular evidence for the uptake and recycling of worm waste products by the symbionts suggests how the worm could eliminate its excretory system, an adaptation unique among annelid worms. We propose a model that describes how the versatile metabolism within this symbiotic consortium provides the host with an optimal energy supply as it shuttles between the upper oxic and lower anoxic coastal sediments that it inhabits.

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  • Tanja Woyke & Hanno Teeling & Natalia N. Ivanova & Marcel Huntemann & Michael Richter & Frank Oliver Gloeckner & Dario Boffelli & Iain J. Anderson & Kerrie W. Barry & Harris J. Shapiro & Ernest Szeto , 2006. "Symbiosis insights through metagenomic analysis of a microbial consortium," Nature, Nature, vol. 443(7114), pages 950-955, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:443:y:2006:i:7114:d:10.1038_nature05192
    DOI: 10.1038/nature05192
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