Bacteria from Penguin Guano, Antarctica

Anton Van de Putte1, Anton Van de Putte2, Data Manager ANtarctic Biodiversity Portal3

1 OD Nature, Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, vautierstraat 29, B-1000, Brussels, Belgium; 2 Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility (ANTABIF), High Cross, CB3 0ET, Cambridge, Belgium; 3 

Corresponding author(s): Anton Van de Putte, Anton Van de Putte (data@biodiversity.aq)

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Resource Citation

Bacterial diversity in Adélie penguin, Pygoscelis adeliae, guano: molecular and morpho-physiological approaches, Marek K. Zdanowski  Piotr Weglenski  Pawel Golik  Joanna M. Sasin  Piotr Borsuk Magdalena J. Zmuda  Anna Stankovic, (2006) FEMS Microbiol Ecol 50 (3): 163-173. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.femsec.2004.06.012

Abstract

The total number of bacteria and culturable bacteria in Ade´lie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) guano was determined during 42 days
of decomposition in a location adjacent to the rookery in Admiralty Bay, King George Island, Antarctica. Of the culturable bacteria, 72 randomly selected colonies were described using 49 morpho-physiological tests, 27 of which were subsequently considered significant in characterizing and differentiating the isolates. On the basis of the nucleotide sequence of a fragment of the 16S rRNA gene in each of 72 pure isolates, three major phylogenetic groups were identified, namely the Moraxellaceae/Pseudomonadaceae (29 isolates), the Flavobacteriaceae (14), and the Micrococcaceae (29). Grouping of the isolates on the basis of morpho-physiological tests (whether 49 or 27 parameters) showed similar results to those based on 16S rRNA gene sequences. Clusters were characterized by considerable intra-cluster variation in both 16S rRNA gene sequences and morpho-physiological responses. High diversity in abundance and morphometry of total bacterial communities during penguin guano decomposition was supported by image analysis of epifluorescence micrographs. The results indicate that the bacterial community in penguin guano is not only one of the richest in
Antarctica, but is extremely diverse, both phylogenetically and morpho-physiologically.

Keywords: Occurrence, EARTH SCIENCE, BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION, BACTERIA/ARCHAEA, CONTINENT, ANTARCTICA

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.biodiversity.aq/resource?r=test_yi-ming_2017

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Admiralty Bay, King George Island
Coordinates: 63°0'0''S and 62°0'0''S Latitude; 59°0'0''W and 58°0'0''W Longitude 

Temporal coverage: May 22, 0035 - June 23, 0014

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Bacteria from Penguin Guano, Antarctica
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.biodiversity.aq/archive.do?r=test_yi-ming_2017
Publication date of data: 2019-03-19
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2017-01-20
Hierarchy level: Dataset