BIO-03 Diversity of marine host-associated microbiomes
Assembly mechanism and co-occurrence pattern of microeukaryotic plankton and their associated prokaryotes in Pearl River Estuary
Yingxia Wang* , 1. Key Laboratory of Marine Environment and Ecology, Ministry of Education, Qingdao 266100, China
Tianying Chen, 1. Key Laboratory of Marine Environment and Ecology, Ministry of Education, Qingdao 266100, China
Yunyun Zhuang, 1. Key Laboratory of Marine Environment and Ecology, Ministry of Education, Qingdao 266100, China 2. Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), Qingdao 266237, China
Zhaohui Wang, 1. College of Life Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Eutrophication and Red Tide Prevention of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China 2. Engineering Research Center of Tropical and Subtropical Aquatic Ecological Engineering, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, 510632, China
Lei Liu, 1. College of Life Science and Technology, Key Laboratory of Eutrophication and Red Tide Prevention of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China 2. Engineering Research Center of Tropical and Subtropical Aquatic Ecological Engineering, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou, 510632, China
Aifeng Li, 1. Key Laboratory of Marine Environment and Ecology, Ministry of Education, Qingdao 266100, China
Hongju Chen, 1. Key Laboratory of Marine Environment and Ecology, Ministry of Education, Qingdao 266100, China 2. Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), Qingdao 266237, China
Guangxing Liu, 1. Key Laboratory of Marine Environment and Ecology, Ministry of Education, Qingdao 266100, China 2. Laboratory for Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), Qingdao 266237, China

    Phycotoxins severely threaten ecosystem stability and public health, but how the presence of phycotoxins could affect the diversity, assembly and biointeractions of plankton communities remains elusive. Here, we used metabarcoding techniques to characterize the community assembly and co-occurrence network of microeukaryotic plankton and their associated prokaryotes in the Pearl River Estuary (PRE) where homo-yessotoxin (hYTX) and pectenotoxin-2 (PTX2) were detected. Results showed the planktonic microbiome was distinctly separated by the cell abundance of toxic algae, while the community diversity was less affected. Microeukaryotic plankon was dominated by Bacillariophyta and Dinophyceae, and their associated prokaryotes were dominated by Gammaproteobacteria and Alphaproteobacteria. Generally, temperature, salinity, phycotoxin concengtation and cross-domain biointeractions co-shaped the planktonic microbiome with microeukaryotes more sensitive to environmental filtering. The community was mainly determined by stochastic processes (dispersal limitation and ecological drift) but the contribution of deterministic processes to prokaryotic community was greater than that to microeukaryotic community. Further analysis on the subcommunities with different abundance revealed that abundant taxa was widespread, while rare taxa was habitat-specifics. Over 75% of the interactions in the co-occurrence network and 44 out of 56 keystone OTUs belonged to moderate or rare taxa, suggesting that non-abundant taxa played a critical role in maintaining ecosystem stability and functions. Most frequent and strong interactions were detected among Bacillariophyta, Dinophyceae, Syndiniales, Proteobacteria and Planctomycetes. Overall, these findings expand current understanding of the ecological mechanisms and microbial interactions in changing ecosystems where marine phycotoxins were detected.