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Characterization of the Gut Microbiota of the Antarctic Heart Urchin (Spatangoida) Abatus Agassizii Guillaume Schwob, Léa Cabrol, Elie Poulin, Julieta Orlando Characterization of the Gut Microbiota of the Antarctic Heart Urchin (Spatangoida) Abatus agassizii Guillaume Schwob, Léa Cabrol, Elie Poulin, Julieta Orlando To cite this version: Guillaume Schwob, Léa Cabrol, Elie Poulin, Julieta Orlando. Characterization of the Gut Microbiota of the Antarctic Heart Urchin (Spatangoida) Abatus agassizii. Frontiers in Microbiology, Frontiers Media, 2020, 11, 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00308. hal-03147115 HAL Id: hal-03147115 https://hal-amu.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03147115 Submitted on 19 Feb 2021 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. 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Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution| 4.0 International License fmicb-11-00308 February 27, 2020 Time: 15:33 # 1 ORIGINAL RESEARCH published: 28 February 2020 doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00308 Characterization of the Gut Microbiota of the Antarctic Heart Urchin (Spatangoida) Abatus agassizii Guillaume Schwob1,2*, Léa Cabrol1,3, Elie Poulin1 and Julieta Orlando2* 1 Laboratorio de Ecología Molecular, Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 2 Laboratorio de Ecología Microbiana, Departamento de Ciencias Ecológicas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, 3 Aix Marseille University, Univ Toulon, CNRS, IRD, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (MIO) UM 110, Marseille, France Abatus agassizii is an irregular sea urchin species that inhabits shallow waters of South Georgia and South Shetlands Islands. As a deposit-feeder, A. agassizii nutrition relies on the ingestion of the surrounding sediment in which it lives barely burrowed. Despite the low complexity of its feeding habit, it harbors a long and twice-looped digestive tract suggesting that it may host a complex bacterial community. Here, we characterized the gut microbiota of specimens from two A. agassizii populations at the south of the King George Island in the West Antarctic Peninsula. Using a metabarcoding approach targeting the 16S rRNA gene, we characterized the Abatus microbiota composition Edited by: David William Waite, and putative functional capacity, evaluating its differentiation among the gut content Ministry for Primary Industries, and the gut tissue in comparison with the external sediment. Additionally, we aimed New Zealand to define a core gut microbiota between A. agassizii populations to identify potential Reviewed by: Cecilia Brothers, keystone bacterial taxa. Our results show that the diversity and the composition of the Walla Walla University, United States microbiota, at both genetic and predicted functional levels, were mostly driven by the Elliot Walter Jackson, sample type, and to a lesser extent by the population location. Specific bacterial taxa, Cornell University, United States belonging mostly to Planctomycetacia and Spirochaetia, were differently enriched in the *Correspondence: Guillaume Schwob gut content and the gut tissue, respectively. Predictive functional profiles revealed higher [email protected] abundance of specific pathways, as the sulfur cycle in the gut content and the amino Julieta Orlando [email protected] acid metabolism, in the gut tissue. Further, the definition of a core microbiota allowed to obtain evidence of specific localization of bacterial taxa and the identification of potential Specialty section: keystone taxa assigned to the Desulfobacula and Spirochaeta genera as potentially This article was submitted to Microbial Symbioses, host selected. The ecological relevance of these keystone taxa in the host metabolism a section of the journal is discussed. Frontiers in Microbiology Keywords: heart sea urchin, deposit-feeder, Abatus agassizii, gut microbiota, core-microbiota, keystone, West Received: 26 November 2019 Antarctic Peninsula, Antarctica Accepted: 11 February 2020 Published: 28 February 2020 Citation: INTRODUCTION Schwob G, Cabrol L, Poulin E and Orlando J (2020) Characterization of the Gut Microbiota of the Antarctic Sea urchins (Echinodermata: Echinoid, Leske 1778) constitute one of the most abundant and Heart Urchin (Spatangoida) Abatus ecologically important components of marine benthic ecosystems (Steneck, 2013). They represent agassizii. Front. Microbiol. 11:308. over 900 species and have colonized all seabed around the world (Littlewood and Smith, 1995). Most doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.00308 of them, called “regular” species harbor a radial body symmetry, an epifaunal lifestyle in energy-rich Frontiers in Microbiology| www.frontiersin.org 1 February 2020| Volume 11| Article 308 fmicb-11-00308 February 27, 2020 Time: 15:33 # 2 Schwob et al. Abatus Gut Microbiota ecosystems and are mainly deep-grazing herbivores (De Ridder et al., 2009) and the nutrient transfer (Sauchyn and Scheibling, et al., 1982). Contrastingly, the “irregular” sea urchins (Irregularia 2009). On the other hand, gut microbiota characterization of Latreille, 1825) comprise an infra-class of the Echinoid, favored irregular sea urchins is scarcer and focused on a single species: in oligotrophic environments and characterized by bilateral Echinocardium cordatum from the Atlantic coast of Western symmetry and a range of infaunal behaviors (Ziegler, 2014). Europe (Da Silva et al., 2006). As a result of its infaunal life and This divergence in lifestyle is associated with a marked its feeding on detritus particles, the E. cordatum digestive tract change in nourishment strategy. As a matter of fact, the has been described as mostly anoxic and was characterized by irregular sea urchins are major deposit-feeders, feeding on the predominance of fermentative bacteria able to metabolize detritus particles by the ingestion of surface sediment (De refractile and sulphated carbohydrates in the ingested sediment Ridder et al., 1987). Due to the substantial mixing and (Thorsen, 1998; Da Silva et al., 2006). The degradation of this resuspension of the soft sediments through their feeding organic matter leads to high concentration of sulfates that are in and movements (Hollertz and Duchêne, 2001; Lohrer et al., turn reduced by sulfate-reducing bacteria, such as Desulfonema. 2005), the irregular sea urchins from the order Spatangoida, Constrastingly, Thorsen(1998) showed that the immediate commonly called heart urchins, are considered among the vicinity of E. cordatum gut was locally more oxygenated, most active bioturbators of marine ecosystems (Queirós et al., particularly at intestinal nodules coated with microbial mats 2013). These spatangoid urchins are the largest group of that host filamentous sulfur-oxidizing bacteria from the Thiotrix irregular echinoids with more than 200 living species and are genus (Brigmon and De Ridder, 1998). These bacteria would particularly represented in the Antarctic continent (Ghiold, 1989; be able to re-oxidize the sulfide produced by sulfate-reducing Thompson and Riddle, 2005). bacteria, providing a detoxifying effect to the host (De Ridder and Among the spatangoid urchins, the genus Abatus Brigmon, 2003; Da Silva et al., 2006). Troschel (family Schizasteridae) regroups 11 nominative The microbial communities associated with echinoderms have species specifically distributed in distinct sub-Antarctic and been rarely investigated in Antarctica (Giudice et al., 2019). Antarctic provinces. They are usually encountered burrowed To the best of our knowledge, the microbiota of a single few centimeters below the surface of muddy to sandy sediments, regular sea urchin species (i.e., Sterechinus neumayeri) has from very shallow waters down to 1000 m depth (Poulin and been explored in the Antarctic continent through a culture- Feral, 1995; David et al., 2005). They are characterized as dependent approach, highlighting the antibiotic and metal “poor-dispersers” owing to their direct development (i.e., no resistance capacity of isolated bacteria from the coelomic fluid larval phase) and the release of the offspring from four dorsal of S. neumayeri collected in Fildes Peninsula, King George marsupials in the immediate vicinity of the females (Poulin and Island (González-Aravena et al., 2016). Despite its status of a Feral, 1995; David et al., 2005; Gil et al., 2009; Ledoux et al., model genus and its ecological importance in the Antarctic 2012). Due to its abundance, wide (sub)Antarctic distribution and Subantarctic benthic ecosystems, there is no description and easy availability, the Abatus genus has been used as a model of the gut microbiota of the deposit-feeder Abatus. Abatus in numerous studies in the Southern Ocean biology areas such agassizii (Mortensen, 1951) is an endemic irregular sea urchin as embryology (Schatt and Feral, 1996), reproductive biology species distributed in sporadic and dense populations, primarily (Maturana et al., 2017), biogeography (Gil et al., 2009; Díaz et al., between 1 and 10 m depth in sheltered bays from the Fildes 2012) and ecology (Magniez, 1983; Lawrence et al., 1984; Palma Bay of King George Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica et al., 2007; Guillaumot et al., 2018). Given its low dispersal (Palma et al., 2007; Díaz et al., 2012). Notwithstanding
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