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Grazing of Two Euplotid Ciliates on the Heterotrophic Dinoflagellates Pfiesteria Piscicida and Cryptoperidiniopsis Sp AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY Vol. 33: 303–308, 2003 Published November 7 Aquat Microb Ecol NOTE Grazing of two euplotid ciliates on the heterotrophic dinoflagellates Pfiesteria piscicida and Cryptoperidiniopsis sp. Scott G. Gransden1, Alan J. Lewitus1, 2,* 1Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine and Coastal Science, University of South Carolina, PO Box 1630, Georgetown, South Carolina 29442, USA 2Marine Resources Research Institute, SC Department of Natural Resources, Hollings Marine Laboratory, 331 Fort Johnson Road, Charleston, South Carolina 29412, USA ABSTRACT: Pfiesteria piscicida and Cryptoperidiniopsis spp. breaks have been associated with millions of dollars of are common co-occurring heterotrophic dinoflagellates in lost revenue to the fisheries and tourism industries estuaries along the Atlantic coast of the United States. We (Burkholder & Glasgow 1997, CENR 2000). isolated P. piscicida, Cryptoperidiniopsis sp., and 2 benthic ciliates (Euplotes vannus and E. woodruffi) from North Inlet Increased awareness of Pfiesteria spp.’s potential estuary, South Carolina, and examined the growth and graz- impact on environmental and human health has led ing properties of the ciliates on cultures of the dinoflagellates to several studies on the dinoflagellates’ trophic dy- maintained with cryptophyte (Storeatula major) prey. Ciliate namics. Ingestion of P. piscicida by copepods, rotifers, growth and grazing parameters on cryptophyte monocultures or benthic ciliates has been reported (Burkholder & and mixed diets of cryptophytes and P. piscicida were signifi- cantly higher with E. woodruffi than E. vannus. Also, the net Glasgow 1995, Mallin et al. 1995). More recently, grazing impact of E. woodruffi on P. piscicida prey was higher Stoecker et al. (2000) added 5-chloromethylfluorescein than the impact on Cryptoperidiniopsis sp., while the E. van- diacetate-stained P. piscicida cultures (grown nontoxi- nus grazing effect did not differ with dinoflagellate prey. cally) to surface water samples from several sites in the The results indicate the potential for effective predatory con- trol by euplotid ciliates on nontoxic P. piscicida and Crypto- Chesapeake Bay, and quantified ingestion and clear- peridiniopsis sp. under defined laboratory conditions. ance rates by natural populations of several tintin- nids and oligotrichous ciliates. The authors concluded KEY WORDS: Benthic ciliates · Cryptoperidiniopsis · Euplotes · that grazing pressure by these groups was often high Heterotrophic dinoflagellates · Microzooplankton grazing · enough to prevent net population growth of the Pfiesteria dinoflagellate, based on comparisons to laboratory Resale or republication not permitted without written consent of the publisher estimates of P. piscicida growth rates. In a follow-up study using the same staining technique (Burkholder et al. 2001b, Stoecker et al. 2002), natural community microzooplankton grazing on P. piscicida was found to Harmful algal blooms (HABs) attributed to toxic be significantly lower when the dinoflagellate was dinoflagellates at times may result in mass mortality of actively toxic (i.e. ‘TOX-A’, Burkholder 2001a,b) than aquatic organisms, including phytoplankton (Ucko when temporarily nontoxic (‘TOX-B’) or non-inducible et al. 1989), zooplankton (Spero & Moree 1981), in- with respect to toxicity (‘NON-IND’). That is, the sus- vertebrates (Tangen 1977), and shellfish and finfish ceptibility of P. piscicida to grazing was lowest in cells (CENR 2000). Two species of heterotrophic dinoflagel- that were actively toxic. lates, Pfiesteria piscicida and P. shumwayae (the Toxic The importance of ciliates to predatory control of Pfiesteria Complex, TPC), have been implicated as dinoflagellates is well established, including their role causative agents in several fish kill or lesion events in as grazers during toxic or nontoxic dinoflagellate North Carolina and Maryland estuaries over the last blooms (Stoecker et al. 1981, Hansen 1995, Jeong et decade (Burkholder & Glasgow 1997, Glasgow et al. al. 1999). In fact, selective grazing by ciliates on dino- 2001). Their toxins have been linked to human health flagellates has been shown (Stoecker et al. 1981, 1986, problems (Schmechel & Koltai 2001), and TPC out- Gifford 1985). Unlike metazoan predators of dinofla- *Corresponding author. Email: [email protected] © Inter-Research 2003 · www.int-res.com 304 Aquat Microb Ecol 33: 303–308, 2003 gellates (Turner & Anderson 1983, Burkholder & scopic analysis, PCR amplification and fluorescent in Glasgow 1995, Mallin et al. 1995), ciliates are capable situ hybridization (FISH) analyses. The ciliated proto- of reproducing rapidly enough to respond to increases zoans Euplotes vannus and E. woodruffi were isolated in dinoflagellate abundance, and therefore are be- from North Inlet surface water collected during a ‘red lieved to be capable of suppressing dinoflagellate tide’ bloom in spring 1999 formed by Kryptoperidinium bloom formation and limiting bloom magnitude (Sherr sp. (Kempton et al. 2002). The ciliates were identified & Sherr 1994, Strom & Morello 1998, Montagnes & after quantitative protargol staining. The cryptophyte Lessard 1999). Typically, studies of ciliate grazing Storeatula major HP9001 was isolated from the impacts on dinoflagellates have focused on tintinnids Choptank River, a subestuary of Chesapeake Bay, by or oligotrichs, but little is known about potential preda- A. J. Lewitus in 1990. All test species were maintained tory control by benthic ciliates such as euplotids. in f/2-Si media (Guillard 1975) at 30‰, and the This study examined the grazing properties of 2 dinoflagellates maintained with S. major prey. Experi- benthic ciliates (Euplotes vannus and E. woodruffi) on ments were conducted at 23°C under a 12:12 h Pfiesteria piscicida and Cryptoperidiniopsis sp., another light:dark cycle at 70 µE m–2 s–1. heterotrophic dinoflagellate that morphologically re- Control treatments consisted of replicate cultures of sembles and often co-occurs with Pfiesteria spp. E. Euplotes vannus, E. woodruffi, Pfiesteria piscicida, or vannus and E. woodruffi are hypotrich ciliates com- Cryptoperidiniopsis sp., each fed Storeatula major, and monly found in a number of aquatic environments, triplicate cultures of S. major alone. Test treatments including salt marshes, marine surface and benthic consisted of P. piscicida or Cryptoperidiniopsis sp. habitats, and estuarine planktonic and bottom waters added to triplicate flasks of E. vannus or E. woodruffi. (Capriulo et al. 1988, Dolan & Coats 1990, 1991a,b, Cultures were time-course subsampled and fixed Dolan 1991). Along with another predatory ciliate, with 2% cold glutaraldehyde. Dinoflagellate zoospore Didinium spp., E. woodruffi was found to comprise up or cryptophyte abundance was determined using a to 20 and 25% of total ciliate biomass in Chesapeake 0.5 mm deep hemacytometer. Ciliate counts were Bay bottom and transition waters, respectively (Dolan performed using 0.25 ml of Lugol’s fixed sample in a 1991). Dolan (1991) also considered E. woodruffi Palmer-Maloney chamber. grazing to be a potentially important regulatory factor Growth and grazing properties were determined in the population dynamics of a microphagous ciliate, during the period in which predator cells were in expo- Pleuronema sp. In our study, E. vannus, E. woodruffi, nential growth (Dolan & Coats 1991a, Jacobson & P. piscicida, and Cryptoperidiniopsis sp. were isolated Anderson 1993). All estimates of euplotid grazing from North Inlet estuary (Georgetown, South Carolina, parameters were based on the first 48 h interval. USA), a shallow, tidally driven estuary characterized Specific growth rate, µ (d–1), was calculated following by high mixing and tidal scouring, and therefore close Heinbokel (1978). Ingestion rate of dinoflagellates on associations between planktonic and benthic microbial cryptophyte prey was determined as: communities (Lewitus et al. 2002, Wetz et al. 2002). I = (g × P) × D –1 Here, we compare grazing properties under defined laboratory conditions as a first step towards assess- where g (specific grazing rate) = µn – µw, the difference ing potential predatory control by euplotid ciliates on between net prey growth rate without grazers (µn) and Cryptoperidiniopsis sp. and NON-IND P. piscicida with grazers (µw), P (mean prey concentration) = (Pt1 – –1 –1 zoospores. Pt0) × (ln[Pt1 × Pt0 ]) , and D (mean predator concen- –1 –1 Materials and methods. North Inlet estuary, near tration) = (Dt1 – Dt0) × (ln[Dt1 × Dt0 ]) . Clearance rate Georgetown, South Carolina, USA, comprises 32 km2 was calculated as: of pristine tidal creeks, salt marsh, and mudflats. Semi- C = I × P –1 diurnal tides exchange 55% of the Inlet’s water with the coastal ocean (Kjerfve et al. 1991). The tidal creeks Because ciliates ingested cryptophytes and dinofla- are vertically well-mixed, salinity is typically high (32 gellates, the direct and indirect effects of ciliate graz- to 35‰), and water temperature varies from 9 to 31°C ing on dinoflagellate populations were not differenti- (Dame et al. 1986). North Inlet is a shallow estuary, ated in this study. Therefore, the effect of ciliates on with an average channel depth of 3 m and a mean tidal dinoflagellate population growth was calculated based range of 1.4 m (D. White unpubl. data). on the equation for ingestion rate above, but the para- Pfiesteria piscicida and Cryptoperidiniopsis sp. were meter was termed ‘net grazing impact’ (NGI), which isolated in fall 1997 from fish-mortality
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