iScience (Aug 2022)
Virioplankton assemblages from challenger deep, the deepest place in the oceans
- Chen Gao,
- Yantao Liang,
- Yong Jiang,
- David Paez-Espino,
- Meiaoxue Han,
- Chengxiang Gu,
- Meiwen Wang,
- Yumei Yang,
- Fengjiao Liu,
- Qingwei Yang,
- Zheng Gong,
- Xinran Zhang,
- Zhixiang Luo,
- Hui He,
- Cui Guo,
- Hongbing Shao,
- Chun Zhou,
- Yang Shi,
- Yu Xin,
- Jinyan Xing,
- Xuexi Tang,
- Qilong Qin,
- Yu-Zhong Zhang,
- Jianfeng He,
- Nianzhi Jiao,
- Andrew McMinn,
- Jiwei Tian,
- Curtis A. Suttle,
- Min Wang
Affiliations
- Chen Gao
- College of Marine Life Sciences, Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Lab of Polar Oceanography and Global Ocean Change, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; UMT-OUC Joint Center for Marine Studies, Qingdao 266003, China
- Yantao Liang
- College of Marine Life Sciences, Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Lab of Polar Oceanography and Global Ocean Change, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; UMT-OUC Joint Center for Marine Studies, Qingdao 266003, China; Corresponding author
- Yong Jiang
- College of Marine Life Sciences, Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Lab of Polar Oceanography and Global Ocean Change, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; UMT-OUC Joint Center for Marine Studies, Qingdao 266003, China
- David Paez-Espino
- DOE Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA; Mammoth Biosciences, Inc., South San Francisco, CA, USA
- Meiaoxue Han
- College of Marine Life Sciences, Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Lab of Polar Oceanography and Global Ocean Change, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; UMT-OUC Joint Center for Marine Studies, Qingdao 266003, China
- Chengxiang Gu
- College of Marine Life Sciences, Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Lab of Polar Oceanography and Global Ocean Change, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; UMT-OUC Joint Center for Marine Studies, Qingdao 266003, China
- Meiwen Wang
- College of Marine Life Sciences, Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Lab of Polar Oceanography and Global Ocean Change, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; UMT-OUC Joint Center for Marine Studies, Qingdao 266003, China
- Yumei Yang
- Inquire Life Diagnostics, Inc, Xi’an 710100, China
- Fengjiao Liu
- The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao 266000, China
- Qingwei Yang
- College of Marine Life Sciences, Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Lab of Polar Oceanography and Global Ocean Change, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; UMT-OUC Joint Center for Marine Studies, Qingdao 266003, China
- Zheng Gong
- College of Marine Life Sciences, Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Lab of Polar Oceanography and Global Ocean Change, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; UMT-OUC Joint Center for Marine Studies, Qingdao 266003, China
- Xinran Zhang
- College of Marine Life Sciences, Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Lab of Polar Oceanography and Global Ocean Change, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; UMT-OUC Joint Center for Marine Studies, Qingdao 266003, China
- Zhixiang Luo
- College of Marine Life Sciences, Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Lab of Polar Oceanography and Global Ocean Change, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; UMT-OUC Joint Center for Marine Studies, Qingdao 266003, China
- Hui He
- College of Marine Life Sciences, Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Lab of Polar Oceanography and Global Ocean Change, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; UMT-OUC Joint Center for Marine Studies, Qingdao 266003, China
- Cui Guo
- College of Marine Life Sciences, Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Lab of Polar Oceanography and Global Ocean Change, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; UMT-OUC Joint Center for Marine Studies, Qingdao 266003, China
- Hongbing Shao
- College of Marine Life Sciences, Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Lab of Polar Oceanography and Global Ocean Change, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; UMT-OUC Joint Center for Marine Studies, Qingdao 266003, China
- Chun Zhou
- Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Laboratory of Physical Oceanography, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China
- Yang Shi
- Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Laboratory of Physical Oceanography, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China
- Yu Xin
- Key Laboratory of Marine Chemistry Theory and Technology, Ministry of Education, Institute for Advanced Ocean Study, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China
- Jinyan Xing
- The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao 266000, China
- Xuexi Tang
- College of Marine Life Sciences, Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Lab of Polar Oceanography and Global Ocean Change, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China
- Qilong Qin
- College of Marine Life Sciences, Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Lab of Polar Oceanography and Global Ocean Change, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Marine Biotechnology Research Center, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
- Yu-Zhong Zhang
- College of Marine Life Sciences, Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Lab of Polar Oceanography and Global Ocean Change, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Marine Biotechnology Research Center, Shandong University, Qingdao 266237, China
- Jianfeng He
- SOA Key Laboratory for Polar Science, Polar Research Institute of China, Shanghai 200136, China
- Nianzhi Jiao
- Institute of Marine Microbes and Ecospheres, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361005, China
- Andrew McMinn
- College of Marine Life Sciences, Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Lab of Polar Oceanography and Global Ocean Change, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia
- Jiwei Tian
- Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Laboratory of Physical Oceanography, Ministry of Education, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China; Laboratory for Ocean and Climate Dynamics, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China; Corresponding author
- Curtis A. Suttle
- Departments of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Microbiology and Immunology and Botany and Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada; Corresponding author
- Min Wang
- College of Marine Life Sciences, Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Frontiers Science Center for Deep Ocean Multispheres and Earth System, Key Lab of Polar Oceanography and Global Ocean Change, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China; UMT-OUC Joint Center for Marine Studies, Qingdao 266003, China; The Affiliated Hospital of Qingdao University, Qingdao 266000, China; Corresponding author
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 25,
no. 8
p. 104680
Abstract
Summary: Hadal ocean biosphere, that is, the deepest part of the world’s oceans, harbors a unique microbial community, suggesting a potential uncovered co-occurring virioplankton assemblage. Herein, we reveal the unique virioplankton assemblages of the Challenger Deep, comprising 95,813 non-redundant viral contigs from the surface to the hadal zone. Almost all of the dominant viral contigs in the hadal zone were unclassified, potentially related to Alteromonadales and Oceanospirillales. 2,586 viral auxiliary metabolic genes from 132 different KEGG orthologous groups were mainly related to the carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, and arsenic metabolism. Lysogenic viral production and integrase genes were augmented in the hadal zone, suggesting the prevalence of viral lysogenic life strategy. Abundant rve genes in the hadal zone, which function as transposase in the caudoviruses, further suggest the prevalence of viral-mediated horizontal gene transfer. This study provides fundamental insights into the virioplankton assemblages of the hadal zone, reinforcing the necessity of incorporating virioplankton into the hadal biogeochemical cycles.
