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AME Aquatic Microbial Ecology Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout the JournalEditorsSpecials AME 58:127-139 (2010) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/ame01360 Association between phytoplankton and Vibrio spp. along the southwest coast of India: a mesocosm experiment Ann-Sofi Rehnstam-Holm1,*, Anna Godhe2, Karolina Härnström2, Pendru Raghunath3, V. Saravanan3, Betty Collin1, Indrani Karunasagar3, Iddya Karunasagar3 1Aquatic Biology and Chemistry (ABC), Kristianstad University, 291 88 Kristianstad, Sweden 2Department of Marine Ecology, University of Gothenburg, Box 461, 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden 3Department of Fishery Microbiology, Karnataka Veterinary, Animal and Fisheries Sciences University, College of Fisheries, Mangalore 575 002, India *Email: ann-sofi.rehnstam-holm@hkr.se ABSTRACT: We report the results from a mesocosm study investigating the interrelationship between microalgae and vibrios. The mesocosms were inoculated with plankton, plankton + sediment, or sediment. We followed the diatom bloom and increases in the abundance of Vibrio spp. and V. parahaemolyticus in conjunction with several environmental variables in all mesocosms and at a reference site. The dominating diatom genera were also identified. Temperature, salinity, and pH were nearly invariant in the mesocosms and did not contribute to the results. The principal environmental variables that correlated to vibrio abundance were total bacterial plate counts, phosphorus and ammonia (positive relationship), and oxygen and silica (negative). Nitrate, total bacterial counts and chlorophyll a (chl a) did not correlate with vibrio growth. The highest diatom abundances were followed by increases in vibrios in all mesocosms. This was also observed in field sampling. Together, these results suggest that diatom blooms could support Vibrio spp. growth. V. parahaemolyticus was initially favoured by sediment. The contribution of V. parahaemolyticus to the total bacterial population was low, on average 0.5%, but constituted a rather high proportion of the vibrio population in the mesocosm systems, i.e. on average 18%. Some of the identified diatom genera, e.g. Chaetoceros and Skeletonema, were negatively correlated to vibrios, while Coscinodiscus was positively correlated. The results indicate that phytoplankton blooms, when recorded as high levels of chl a, should be used with caution as predictors for future vibrio epidemics, since the origin of the chl a might have a significant effect on vibrio abundance. KEY WORDS: Mesocosm · Phytoplankton blooms · Vibrio spp. Full text in pdf format PreviousNextCite this article as: Rehnstam-Holm AS, Godhe A, Härnström K, Raghunath P and others (2010) Association between phytoplankton and Vibrio spp. along the southwest coast of India: a mesocosm experiment. Aquat Microb Ecol 58:127-139. https://doi.org/10.3354/ame01360 Export citation RSS - Facebook - Tweet - linkedIn Cited by Published in AME Vol. 58, No. 2. Online publication date: January 07, 2010 Print ISSN: 0948-3055; Online ISSN: 1616-1564 Copyright © 2010 Inter-Research.
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