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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, July 2002, p. 3606-3613, Vol. 68, No. 7
0099-2240/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.7.3606-3613.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Changes in Bacterioplankton Community Structure and Activity with Depth in a Eutrophic Lake as Revealed by 5S rRNA Analysis

Katja Dominik and Manfred G. Höfle*

GBF—German Research Center for Biotechnology, Department of Environmental Microbiology, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany

Received 10 December 2001/ Accepted 4 April 2002

The community structure of bacterioplankton was studied at different depths (0 to 25 m) of a temperate eutrophic lake (Lake Plußsee in northern Germany) by using comparative 5S rRNA analysis. The relative amounts of taxonomic groups were estimated from 5S rRNA bands separated by high-resolution electrophoresis. Comparison of partial 5S rRNA sequences enabled detection of changes in single taxa over space and during seasons. Overall, the bacterioplankton community was dominated by 3 to 14 abundant (>4% of the total 5S rRNA) taxa. In general, the number of 5S rRNA bands (i.e., the number of bacterial taxa) decreased with depth. In the fall, when thermal stratification and chemical stratification were much more pronounced than they were in the spring, the correlation between the depth layers and the community structure was more pronounced. Therefore, in the fall each layer had its own community structure; i.e., there were different community structures in the epilimnion, the metalimnion, and the hypolimnion. Only three 5S rRNA bands were detected in the hypolimnion during the fall, and one band accounted for about 70% of the total 5S rRNA. The sequences of individual 5S rRNA bands from the spring and fall were different for all size classes analyzed except two bands, one of which was identified as Comamonas acidivorans. In the overall analysis of the depth profiles, the diversity in the epilimnion contrasted with the reduced diversity of the bacterioplankton communities in the hypolimnion, and large differences occurred in the composition of the epilimnion at different seasons except for generalists like C. acidivorans.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: GBF-German Research Center for Biotechnology, Department of Environmental Microbiology, Mascheroder Weg 1, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany. Phone: 49-531-6181-419. Fax: 49-531-6181-411. E-mail: mho{at}gbf.de.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, July 2002, p. 3606-3613, Vol. 68, No. 7
0099-2240/02/$04.00+0     DOI: 10.1128/AEM.68.7.3606-3613.2002
Copyright © 2002, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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