Adaptation of Aquatic Microbial Communities to Hg2+ Stress †
AUTOR(ES)
Barkay, Tamar
RESUMO
The mechanism of adaptation to Hg2+ in four aquatic habitats was studied by correlating microbially mediated Hg2+ volatilization with the adaptive state of the exposed communities. Community diversity, heterotrophic activity, and Hg2+ resistance measurements indicated that adaptation of all four communities was stimulated by preexposure to Hg2+. In saline water communities, adaptation was associated with rapid volatilization after an initial lag period. This mechanism, however, did not promote adaptation in a freshwater sample, in which Hg2+ was volatilized slowly, regardless of the resistance level of the microbial community. Distribution of the mer operon among representative colonies of the communities was not related to adaptation to Hg2+. Thus, although volatilization enabled some microbial communities to sustain their functions in Hg2+-stressed environments, it was not mediated by the genes that serve as a model system in molecular studies of bacterial resistance to mercurials.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=204188Documentos Relacionados
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