Compositional and temporal stability of fecal taxon libraries for use with SourceTracker in sub-tropical catchments.
16S rRNA
Amplicon sequencing
Microbial source tracking
SourceTracker
Wastewater
Journal
Water research
ISSN: 1879-2448
Titre abrégé: Water Res
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0105072
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
15 Nov 2019
15 Nov 2019
Historique:
received:
25
03
2019
revised:
06
08
2019
accepted:
08
08
2019
pubmed:
21
8
2019
medline:
26
11
2019
entrez:
21
8
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Characterization of microbial communities using high-throughput amplicon sequencing is an emerging approach for microbial source tracking of fecal pollution. This study used SourceTracker software to examine temporal and geographical variability of fecal bacterial community profiles to identify pollutant sources in three freshwater catchments in sub-tropical Australia. Fecal bacterial communities from 10 animal species, humans, and composite wastewater samples from six sewage treatment plants were characterized and compared to freshwater samples using Illumina amplicon sequencing of the V5-V6 regions of the 16S rRNA gene. Source contributions were calculated in SourceTracker using new fecal taxon libraries as well as previously generated libraries to determine the effects of geographic and temporal variability on source assignments. SourceTracker determined 16S rRNA bacterial communites within freshwater samples, shared taxonomic similarities to that of wastewater at low levels (typically <3%). SourceTraker also predicted occasional fecal detection of deer and flying fox sources in the water samples. No significant differences in source contributions were observed within sequences from current and previously characterized fecal samples (P ≥ 0.107). However, significant differences were observed between previously characterized and newly characterized source communities (ANOSIM P ≤ 0.001), which shared <15% community composition. Results suggest temporal instability of fecal taxon libraries among tested sources and highlight continual evaluation of community-based MST using confirmatory qPCR analyses of marker genes.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31430652
pii: S0043-1354(19)30741-9
doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2019.114967
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
114967Informations de copyright
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