FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Microbial community structure in hadal sediments: high similarity along trench axes and strong changes along redox gradients BT AF Schauberger, Clemens Glud, Ronnie N. Hausmann, Bela Trouche, Blandine Maignien, Lois Poulain, Julie Wincker, Patrick ARNAUD-HAOND, Sophie Wenzhöfer, Frank Thamdrup, Bo AS 1:1;2:1,2,3;3:4,5;4:6;5:6;6:7;7:7;8:8;9:9,10;10:1; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:PDG-RBE-MARBEC-LHM;9:;10:; C1 Hadal & Nordcee, Department of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark Department of Ocean and Environmental Sciences, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan Danish Institute of Advanced Study (DIAS), University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark Joint Microbiome Facility of the Medical University of Vienna and the University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Department of Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria Univ Brest, CNRS, IFREMER, Microbiology of Extreme Environments Laboratory, Plouzané, France Génomique Métabolique, Genoscope, Institut François Jacob, CEA, CNRS, Univ Evry, Université Paris-Saclay, Evry, France MARBEC, Institut Français de Recherche pour L’Exploitation de la Mer, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, Sète, France Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology and Ecology, Bremen, Germany C2 UNIV SOUTHERN DENMARK, DENMARK UNIV TOKYO, JAPAN UNIV SOUTHERN DENMARK, DENMARK UNIV VIENNA, AUSTRIA UNIV VIENNA, AUSTRIA UBO, FRANCE UNIV PARIS SACLAY, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE INST A WEGENER, GERMANY MAX PLANCK INST, GERMANY SI BREST SETE SE PDG-REM-EEP-LMEE PDG-RBE-MARBEC-LHM UM BEEP-LM2E MARBEC IN WOS Ifremer UMR WOS Cotutelle UMR copubli-france copubli-europe copubli-univ-france copubli-int-hors-europe IF 11.217 TC 25 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00699/81144/85348.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00699/81144/85349.pdf LA English DT Article AB Hadal trench sediments are hotspots of biogeochemical activity in the deep sea, but the biogeochemical and ecological factors that shape benthic hadal microbial communities remain unknown. Here, we sampled ten hadal sites from two trench regions with a vertical resolution of down to 1 cm. We sequenced 16S rRNA gene amplicons using universal and archaea-specific primer sets and compared the results to biogeochemical parameters. Despite bathymetric and depositional heterogeneity we found a high similarity of microbial communities within each of the two trench axes, while composition at the phylum level varied strongly with sediment depth in conjunction with the redox stratification into oxic, nitrogenous, and ferruginous zones. As a result, communities of a given sediment horizon were more similar to each other across a distance of hundreds of kilometers within each trench, than to those of adjacent horizons from the same sites separated only by centimeters. Total organic carbon content statistically only explained a small part of the variation within and between trenches, and did not explain the community differences observed between the hadal and adjacent shallower sites. Anaerobic taxa increased in abundance at the top of the ferruginous zone, seeded by organisms deposited at the sediment surface and surviving burial through the upper redox zones. While an influence of other potential factors such as geographic isolation, hydrostatic pressure, and non-steady state depositional regimes could not be discerned, redox stratification and diagenesis appear to be the main selective forces that structure community composition in hadal sediments. PY 2021 PD DEC SO Isme Journal SN 1751-7362 PU Springer Science and Business Media LLC VL 15 IS 12 UT 000658989500001 BP 3455 EP 3467 DI 10.1038/s41396-021-01021-w ID 81144 ER EF