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Article Dans Une Revue Environmental Microbiology Année : 2022

Temporal variations of Microsporidia diversity and discovery of new host–parasite interactions in a lake ecosystem

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Microsporidia are a large group of obligate intracellular eukaryotic parasites related to Fungi. Recent studies suggest that their diversity has been greatly underestimated and little is known about their hosts other than metazoans, and thus about their impact on the communities at the base of the food web. In this work, we therefore studied the diversity of Microsporidia over one year and identified potential new hosts in small-sized fractions (<150 μm) in a lake ecosystem using a metabarcoding approach coupled with co-occurrence networks and tyramide signal amplification-fluorescent in situ hybridization. Our analysis shows a great Microsporidia diversity (1 472 OTUs), with an important part of this diversity being unknown. Temporal variations of this diversity have been observed, which might follow temporal variations of their potential hosts such as protists and microzooplankton. New hosts among them were identified as well as associations with phytoplankton. Indeed, repeated infections were observed in Kellicottia (rotifers) with a prevalence of 38% (infected individuals). Microsporidia inside a Stentor (ciliate) were also observed. Finally, potential infections of the diatom Asterionella were identified (prevalence <0.1%). The microsporidian host spectrum could be therefore even more important than previously described, and their role in the functioning of lake ecosystems is undoubtedly largely unknown.
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Marina Chauvet, Didier Debroas, Anne Moné, Aurore Dubuffet, Cécile Lepère. Temporal variations of Microsporidia diversity and discovery of new host–parasite interactions in a lake ecosystem. Environmental Microbiology, 2022, Pathogen and Antimicrobial Resistance Ecology, 24 (3), pp.1672-1686. ⟨10.1111/1462-2920.15950⟩. ⟨hal-03662512⟩
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