Phylogenetic diversity of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria in biofilters of recirculating aquaculture systems

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• 作者：Tomoko Sakami ; Tadashi Andoh ; Tetsuo Morita ; Yoshihisa Yamamoto
• 关键词：Marine aquaculture ; Nitrification ; Ammonia monooxygenase ; amoA
• 刊名：Marine Genomics
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：September, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：7
• 期：Complete
• 页码：27-31
• 全文大小：328 K

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We constructed ammonia monooxygenase alpha subunit (amoA) gene clone libraries of ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA) and bacteria (AOB) from three biofiltration tanks used for closed marine fish culture systems. The number of operational taxonomic units (OTUs) found in any one place was 76 % -80 % of the total OTUs in each tank for AOA and 100 % for AOB when OUTs were defined on the basis of a 5 % nucleotide difference. In a phylogenetic tree, all of the AOA amoA sequences fell into a cluster, which contained Candidatus Nitrosopumilus maritimus. All of the AOB amoA sequences were related to the Nitrosospira lineage. These results indicated that different ammonia oxidizers were present in different tanks, but that the dominant phylogenetic types were stable. In a biofiltration tank to which a high concentration of ammonium chloride was added periodically to condition the biofilter materials, most of the AOA amoA sequences were different from the dominant one observed in the fish culture tanks. The AOB amoA sequences were also different, and were similar to those of Nitrosomonas aestuarii. These findings suggest that high concentration ammonia loads have a considerable affect on ammonia-oxidizer community composition.