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Acute and severe hypoxia associated with harmful algal bloom has become one of the major causes for the environmental deterioration of coastal areas. Although it is generally thought that a large part of the dissolved oxygen consumption at a bloom site is initiated by heterotrophic bacteria that attack organic matter derived from dead or dying algal cells, precise microbial processes leading to the hypoxia are yet to be examined. Here we show temporal dynamics of extracellular dissolved organic carbon (DOC) of the red tide forming raphidophyte Chattonella marina and bacterial populations associating with the algae under laboratory conditions. During the growth of non-axenic strains of C. marina, we monitored abundance of algae, associated bacteria, and DOC in the culture media. Bacterial cell abundance increased in response to the increase in DOC both at the beginning and the late log phase of the algal growth. Flow cytometric analysis revealed that transient increase in the percentage of respiratory-active bacterial cells also coincided with the timing of the increase in bacterial abundance and DOC. These results strongly suggest that DOC released from growing C. marina fuels respiration and growth of planktonic bacteria surrounding the algae. This has implications for the role of DOC released from C. marina bloom before the collapse in mediating interactions between neighboring algae and bacterial assemblage which may eventually lead to algal bloom-associated hypoxia.
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We sincerely thank Dr. Hirano and Dr. Yamatogi for kindly providing strains of Cm43 and Ca0808. We also thank two anonymous reviewers for providing constructive guidance to improve the original manuscript. This work was partially supported by JSPS KAKENHI grant numbers JP22580202, JP25292114, JP15H05252, JP17H03854), and a grant from COMPAS.
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Wada, M., Takano, Y., Nagae, S. et al. Temporal dynamics of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) produced in a microcosm with red tide forming algae Chattonella marina and its associated bacteria. J Oceanogr 74, 587–593 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10872-017-0455-8
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