FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Investigation of Capitella spp. symbionts in the context of varying anthropic pressures: First occurrence of a transient advantageous epibiosis with the giant bacteria Thiomargarita sp. to survive seasonal increases of sulfides in sediments BT AF Hourdez, Stéphane Boidin-Wichlacz, Céline Jollivet, Didier Massol, François Rayol, Maria Claudia Bruno, Renato Zeppilli, Daniela Thomas, Frederic Lesven, Ludovic Billon, Gabriel Duperron, Sebastien Tasiemski, Aurélie AS 1:1;2:2,3;3:4;4:2,3;5:5;6:2,3;7:6;8:7;9:8;10:8;11:9;12:2,3; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:PDG-REM-EEP-LEP;8:;9:;10:;11:;12:; C1 Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer, UMR 8222 CNRS-SU, avenue Pierre Fabre, 66650 Banyuls-sur-Mer, France Univ. Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019-UMR9017-CIIL-Centre d'Infection et d'Immunité de Lille, Lille, France Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8198 - Evo-Eco-Paleo, F-59000 Lille, France Sorbonne Université, CNRS UMR 7144 ‘Adaptation et Diversité en Milieux Marins’ (AD2M), Team ‘Dynamique de la Diversité Marine’ (DyDiv), Station biologique de Roscoff, Place G. Teissier, 29680 Roscoff, France Centro Interdisciplinar em Energia e Ambiente - CIEnAm, Universidade Federal da Bahia, 40170-115 Salvador, BA, Brazil IFREMER, Centre Brest, REM/EEP/LEP, ZI de la Pointe du Diable, CS10070, 29280 Plouzané, France CREEC/CREES, UMR IRD-Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8516 - LASIRE, Laboratoire Avancé de Spectroscopie pour les Interactions, la Réactivité et l'Environnement, F-59000 Lille, France Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, CNRS UMR7245 Mécanismes de Communication et Adaptation des Micro-organismes, 12 rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France C2 CNRS, FRANCE UNIV LILLE, FRANCE UNIV LILLE, FRANCE UNIV SORBONNE, FRANCE UNIV FED BAHIA, BRAZIL IFREMER, FRANCE UNIV MONTPELLIER, FRANCE UNIV LILLE, FRANCE MNHN, FRANCE SI BREST SE PDG-REM-EEP-LEP IN WOS Ifremer UPR copubli-france copubli-univ-france copubli-int-hors-europe copubli-sud IF 10.754 TC 5 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00709/82120/86902.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;Chemosynthetic habitat;Eutrophication;Worms;Marine annelids;Coastal;Ectosymbiosis AB Capitella spp. is considered as an important ecological indicator of eutrophication due to its high densities in organic-rich, reduced, and sometimes polluted coastal ecosystems. We investigated whether such ability to cope with adverse ecological contexts might be a response to the microorganisms these worms are associated with. In populations from the French Atlantic coast (Roscoff, Brittany), we observed an epibiotic association covering the tegument of 20–30% specimens from an anthropized site while individuals from a reference, non-anthropized site were devoid of any visible epibionts. Using RNAseq, molecular and microscopic analyses, we described and compared the microbial communities associated with the epibiotic versus the non-epibiotic specimens at both locations. Interestingly, data showed that the epibiosis is characterized by sulfur-oxidizing bacteria among which the giant bacterium Thiomargarita sp., to date only described in deep sea habitats. Survey of Capitella combined with the geochemical analysis of their sediment revealed that epibiotic specimens are always found in muds with the highest concentration of sulfides, mostly during the summer. Concomitantly, tolerance tests demonstrated that the acquisition of epibionts increased survival against toxic level of sulfides. Overall, the present data highlight for the first time a peculiar plastic adaptation to seasonal variations of the habitat based on a transcient epibiosis allowing a coastal species to survive temporary harsher conditions. PY 2021 PD DEC SO Science Of The Total Environment SN 0048-9697 PU Elsevier BV VL 798 UT 000701750700003 DI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149149 ID 82120 ER EF