Organic geochemical studies of modern microbial mats from Shark Bay: Part I: Influence of depth and salinity on lipid biomarkers and their isotopic signatures

Geobiology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 469-487

  Pages A ^a,c   Grice, K ^a   Ertefai, T ^a   Skrzypek, G ^b   Jahnert, R ^a   Greenwood, P ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBON; BIOMARKER; BIOMASS; CYANOBACTERIUM; DEPTH; DIATOM; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LIPID; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL MAT; MORPHOLOGY; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY; SALINITY; SEAGRASS; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; TIDAL FLAT; WORLD HERITAGE SITE;

AUSTRALIA; SHARK BAY; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHONDRICHTHYES; CYANOBACTERIA;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; LIPID;

AUSTRALIA; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIATOM; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; SALINITY; SEDIMENT;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CYANOBACTERIA; DIATOMS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LIPIDS; SALINITY; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84906086551     PISSN: 14724677     EISSN: 14724669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12094     Document Type: Article

References (105)

1. Abed RMM, Kohls K, de Beer D (2007) Effect of salinity changes on the bacterial diversity, photosynthesis and oxygen consumption of cyanobacterial mats from an intertidal flat of the Arabian Gulf. Environmental Microbiology 9, 1384-1392.
2. 12C ratios in individual fatty acids of marine mytilids with and without bacterial symbionts. Organic Geochemistry 21, 611-617.
3. Allen MA, Goh F, Burns BP, Neilan BA (2009) Bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic diversity of smooth and pustular microbial mat communities in the hypersaline lagoon of Shark Bay. Geobiology 7, 82-96.
4. Allen MA, Neilan BA, Burns BP, Jahnke LL, Summons RE (2010) Lipid biomarkers in Hamelin Pool microbial mats and stromatolites. Organic Geochemistry 41, 1207-1218.
5. Allwood AC, Walter MR, Kamber BS, Marshall CP, Burch IW (2006) Stromatolite reef from the Early Archaean era of Australia. Nature 441, 714-718.
6. Bauersachs T, Compaoré J, Severin I, Hopmans EC, Schouten S, Stal LJ, Sinninghe Damsté JS (2011) Diazotrophic microbial community of coastal microbial mats of the southern North Sea. Geobiology 9, 349-359.
7. Benlloch S, López-López A, Casamayor EO, Øvreas L, Goddard V, Daae FL, Smerdon G, Massana R, Joint I, Thingstad F, Pedrós-Allió C, Rodriguez-Valera F (2002) Prokaryotic genetic diversity throughout the salinity gradient of a coastal solar saltern. Environmental Microbiology 4, 349-360.
8. Blinn D, Halse S, Pinder A, Shiel R (2004) Diatom and micro-invertebrate communities and environmental determinants in the western Australian wheatbelt: a response to salinization. Hydrobiologia 528, 229-248.
9. Blumenberg M, Krüger M, Nauhaus K, Talbot HM, Oppermann BI, Seifert R, Pape T, Michaelis W (2006) Biosynthesis of hopanoids by sulfate-reducing bacteria (genus Desulfovibrio). Environmental Microbiology 8, 1220-1227.
10. Blumer M (1957) Removal of elemental sulphur from hydrocarbon fractions. Analytical Chemistry 29, 1039-1041.
11. Bobbie RJ, White DC (1980) Characterization of benthic microbial community structure by high-resolution gas chromatography of fatty acid methyl esters. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 39, 1212-1222.
12. Boudou JP, Trichet J, Robinson N, Brassell SC (1986) Profile of aliphatic jydrocarbons in a recent polynesian microbial mat. International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry 26, 137-155.
13. 13C-labeling approach. Geobiology 7, 308-323.
14. Burne RV, Johnson K (2012) Sea-level variation and the zonation of microbialites in Hamelin Pool, Shark Bay, Western Australia. Marine and Freshwater Research 63, 994-1004.
15. Burns BP, Goh F, Allen M, Neilan BA (2004) Microbial diversity of extant stromatolites in the hypersaline marine environment of Shark Bay, Australia. Environmental Microbiology 6, 1096-1101.
16. Canuel EA, Freeman KH, Wakeham SG (1997) Isotopic compositions of lipid biomarker compounds in estuarine plants and surface sediments. Limnology and Oceanography 42, 1570-1583.
17. Chmura GL, Aharon P (1995) Stable carbon isotope signatures of sedimentary carbon in coastal wetlands as indicators of salinity regime. Journal of Coastal Research 11, 124-135.
18. Cohen Z, Margheri MC, Tomaselli L (1995) Chemotaxonomy of cyanobacteria. Phytochemistry 40, 1155-1158.
19. 13C analyses of leaf lipids from plants with different carbon dioxide metabolism. Organic Geochemistry 21, 619-627.
20. Cook PLM, Revill A, Clementson LA, Volkman JK (2004) Carbon and nitrogen cycling on intertidal mudflats of a temperate Australian estuary. III. Sources of organic matter. Marine Ecology Progress Series 280, 55-72.
21. Davey MC (1993) Carbon and nitrogen dynamics in a maritime Antarctic stream. Freshwater Biology 30, 319-330.
22. Des Marais DJ, Bauld J, Palmisano A, Summons RE, Ward D (1992). The biogeochemistry of carbon in modern microbial mats. In The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study (eds Schopf JW, Klein C). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 299-308.
23. Dobson G, Ward DM, Robinson N, Eglinton G (1988) Biogeochemistry of hot spring environments: extractable lipids of a cyanobacterial mat. Chemical Geology 68, 155-179.
24. Duarte CM (1990) Seagrass nutrient content. Marine Ecology Progress Series 67, 201-207.
25. Dunlop RW, Jefferies PR (1985) Hydrocarbons of the hypersaline basins of Shark Bay, western Australia. Organic Geochemistry 8, 313-320.
26. Dunstan GA, Volkman JK, Barrett SM, Leroi JM, Jeffrey SW (1993) Essential polyunsaturated fatty acids from 14 species of diatom (Bacillariophyceae). Phytochemistry 35, 155-161.
27. Edgcomb VP, Bernhard JM, Beaudoin D, Pruss SB, Welander PV, Schubotz F, Mehay S, Gillespie AL, Summons RE (2013a) Molecular indicators of microbial diversity in oolitic sands of Highborne Cay, Bahamas. Geobiology 11, 234-251.
28. Edgcomb VP, Bernhard JM, Summons RE, Orsi W, Beaudoin D, Visscher PT (2013b) Active eukaryotes in microbialites from Highborne Cay, Bahamas, and Hamelin Pool (Shark Bay), Australia. ISME Journal 8, 418-429.
29. Eglinton G, Hamilton RJ (1967) Leaf Epicuticular waxes. Science 156, 1322-1335.
30. Ficken KJ, Li B, Swain DL, Eglinton G (2000) An n-alkane proxy for the sedimentary input of submerged/floating freshwater aquatic macrophytes. Organic Geochemistry 31, 745-749.
31. Fourçans A, de Oteyza TG, Wieland A, Solé A, Diestra E, van Bleijswijk J, Grimalt JO, Kühl M, Esteve I, Muyzer G, Caumette P, Duran R (2004) Characterization of functional bacterial groups in a hypersaline microbial mat community (Salins-de-Giraud, Camargue, France). FEMS Microbiology Ecology 51, 55-70.
32. Freeman KH, Wakeham SG, Hayes JM (1994) Predictive isotopic biogeochemistry: hydrocarbons from anoxic marine basins. Organic Geochemistry 21, 629-644.
33. 13C-rich carbon in marine food webs. Marine Ecology Progress Series 76, 149-157.
34. Gelpi E, Schneider H, Mann J, Oró J (1970) Hydrocarbons of geochemical significance in microscopic algae. Phytochemistry 9, 603-612.
35. Golubic S, Hoffmann HJ (1976) Comparison of Holocene and Mid-Precambrian Entophysalidaceae (Cyanophyta) in stromatolitic algal mats: cell division and degradation. Journal of Paleontology 50, 1074-1082.
36. Gong C, Hollander DJ (1997) Differential contribution of bacteria to sedimentary organic matter in oxic and anoxic environments, Santa Monica Basin, California. Organic Geochemistry 26, 545-563.
37. 13C as an indicator of paleoenvironments: a molecular approach. In Application of Stable Isotope Techniques to Study Biological Processes and Functioning Ecosystems (eds. Unkovich M, Pate J, McNeill A, Gibbs J). Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, NY, pp. 247-281.
38. Grimalt JO, de Wit R, Teixidor P, Albaigés J (1992) Lipid biogeochemistry of Phormidium and Microcoleus mats. Organic Geochemistry 19, 509-530.
39. 25 highly branched isoprenoid (HBI) alkenes from the marine benthic diatom Pleurosigma strigosum. Phytochemistry 65, 3049-3055.
40. Hoffmannn HJ (2000) Archean stromatolites as microbial archives. In Microbial Sediments (eds Riding RE, Awramik SM). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 315-327.
41. Jaffé R, Mead RN, Hernandez ME, Peralba MC, Diguida OA (2001) Origin and transport of sedimentary organic matter in two subtropical estuaries: a comparative, biomarker-based study. Organic Geochemistry 32, 507-526.
42. Jahnert R, Collins L (2011) Significance of subtidal microbial deposits in Shark Bay, Australia. Marine Geology 286, 106-111.
43. Jahnert R, Collins L (2012) Characteristics, distribution and morphogenesis of subtidal microbial systems in Shark Bay, Australia. Marine Geology 303-306, 115-136.
44. Jahnert R, Collins L (2013) Controls on microbial activity and tidal flat evolution in Shark Bay, Western Australia. Sedimentology 60, 1071-1099.
45. Jahnke LL, Embaye T, Hope J, Turk KA, Van Zuilen M, Des Marais DJ, Farmer JD, Summons RE (2004) Lipid biomarker and carbon isotopic signatures for stromatolite-forming, microbial mat communities and Phormidium cultures from Yellowstone National Park. Geobiology 2, 31-47.
46. Jiang H, Dong H, Yu B, Liu X, Li Y, Ji S, Zhang CL (2007) Microbial response to salinity change in Lake Chaka, a hypersaline lake on Tibetan plateau. Environmental Microbiology 9, 2603-2621.
47. Jørgensen BB, Revsbech NP, Blackburn TH, Cohen Y (1979) Diurnal cycle of oxygen and sulfide microgradients and microbial photosynthesis in a cyanobacterial mat sediment. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 38, 46-58.
48. Kenyon CN, Rippka R, Stanier RY (1972) Fatty acid composition and physiological properties of some filamentous blue-green algae. Archiv für Mikrobiologie 83, 216-236.
49. Kohn MJ (2010) Carbon isotope compositions of terrestrial C3 plants as indicators of (paleo) ecology and (paleo) climate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 107, 19691-19695.
50. Logan BW (1974) Evolution and diagenesis of Quarternary carbonate sequences, Shark Bay, Western Australia. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 22, 195-249.
51. Logan BW, Cebulski DE (1970) Sedimentary environments of Shark Bay, Western Australia. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 13, 1-37.
52. Logan GA, Hayes JM, Hieshima GB, Summons RE (1995) Terminal Proterozoic reorganization of biogeochemical cycles. Nature 376, 53-56.
53. Londry KL, Jahnke LL, Des Marais DJ (2004) Stable carbon isotope ratios of lipid biomarkers of sulfate-reducing bacteria. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 70, 745-751.
54. McKirdy DM, Thorpe CS, Haynes DE, Grice K, Krull ES, Halverson GP, Webster LJ (2010) The biogeochemical evolution of the Coorong during the mid- to late Holocene: an elemental, isotopic and biomarker perspective. Organic Geochemistry 41, 96-110.
55. Meziane T, Tsuchiya M (2000) Fatty acids as tracers of organic matter in the sediment and food web of a mangrove/intertidal flat ecosystem, Okinawa, Japan. Marine Ecology Progress Series 200, 49-57.
56. Meziane T, Bodineau L, Retiere C, Thoumelin G (1997) The use of lipid markers to define sources of organic matter in sediment and food web of the intertidal salt-marsh-flat ecosystem of Mont-Saint-Michel Bay, France. Journal of Sea Research 38, 47-58.
57. Mook WG, Bommerson JC, Staverman WH (1974) Carbon isotope fractionation between dissolved bicarbonate and gaseous carbon dioxide. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 22, 169-176.
58. Navarrete A, Peacock AD, Macnaughton S, Urmeneta J, Mas-Castellà J, White DC, Guerrero R (2000) Physiological status and community composition of microbial mats of the ebro delta, Spain, by signature lipid biomarkers. Microbial Ecology 39, 92-99.
59. Oliver JD, Colwell RR (1973) Extractable lipids of gram-negative marine bacteria: fatty - acid composition. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 23, 442-458.
60. Paerl HW, Pinckney JL (1996) A mini-review of microbial consortia: their roles in aquatic production and biogeochemical cycling. Microbial Ecology 31, 225-247.
61. Paerl HW, Pinckney JL, Steppe TF (2000) Cyanobacterial-bacterial mat consortia: examining the functional unit of microbial survival and growth in extreme environments. Environmental Microbiology 2, 11-26.
62. Pagès A, Grice K, Vacher M, Welsh DT, Teasdale PR, Bennett WW, Greenwood P (2014a) Characterising microbial communities and processes in a modern stromatolite (Shark Bay) using lipid biomarkers and two-dimensional distributions of porewater solutes. Environmental Microbiology. doi:10.1111/1462-2920.12378.
63. Pagès A, Welsh DT, Teasdale PR, Grice K, Vacher M, Bennett WW, Visscher PT (2014b) Diel fluctuations in solute distributions and biogeochemical cycling in a hypersaline microbial mat from Shark Bay, WA. Marine Chemistry doi: 10.1016/j.marchem.2014.05.003.
64. Pancost RD, Sinninghe Damsté JS (2003) Carbon isotopic compositions of prokaryotic lipids as tracers of carbon cycling in diverse settings. Chemical Geology 195, 29-58.
65. Paoletti C, Pushparaj B, Florenzano G, Capella P, Lercker G (1976) Unsaponifiable matter of green and blue-green algal lipids as a factor of biochemical differentiation of their biomasses: I. Total unsaponifiable and hydrocarbon fraction. Lipids 11, 258-265.
66. Papineau D, Walker JJ, Mojzsis SJ, Pace NR (2005) Composition and structure of microbial communities from stromatolites of hamelin pool in Shark Bay, Western Australia. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71, 4822-4832.
67. Pedrós-Alió C, Calderón-Paz JI, MacLean MH, Medina G, Marrasé C, Gasol JM, Guixa-Boixereu N (2000) The microbial food web along salinity gradients. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 32, 143-155.
68. Powell TG, McKirdy DM (1973) Relationship between ratio of pristane to phytane, crude oil composition and geological environment in Australia. Nature 243, 37-39.
69. Prahl FG, Bennett JT, Carpenter R (1980) The early diagenesis of aliphatic hydrocarbons and organic matter in sedimentary particulates from Dabob Bay, Washington. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 44, 1967-1976.
70. Price RM, Skrzypek G, Grierson PF, Swart PK, Fourqurean JW (2012) The use of stable isotopes of oxygen and hydrogen to identify water sources in two hypersaline estuaries with different hydrologic regimes. Marine and Freshwater Research 63, 952-966.
71. Rezanka T, Sigler K (2009) Odd-numbered very-long-chain fatty-acids from the microbial, animal and plant kingdoms. Progress in Lipid Research 48, 206-238.
72. Rezanka T, Sokolov M, Víden I (1990) Unusual and very-long- chain fatty acids in Desulfotomaculum, a sulfate-reducing bacterium. FEMS Microbiology Letters 73, 231-237.
73. Robinson N, Eglinton G (1990) Lipid chemistry of Icelandic hot spring microbial mats. Organic Geochemistry 15, 291-298.
74. Rontani J-F, Volkman JK (2005) Lipid characterization of coastal hypersaline cyanobacterial mats from the Camargue (France). Organic Geochemistry 36, 251-272.
75. Rothman DH, Hayes JM, Summons RE (2003) Dynamics of the Neoproterozoic carbon cycle. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 100, 8124-8129.
76. Sabbe K, Hodgson DA, Verleyen E, Taton A, Wilmotte A, Vanhoutte K, Vyverman W (2004) Salinity, depth and the structure and composition of microbial mats in continental Antarctic lakes. Freshwater Biology 49, 296-319.
77. Sakata S, Hayes JM, McTaggart AR, Evans RA, Leckrone KJ, Togasaki RK (1997) Carbon isotopic fractionation associated with lipid biosynthesis by a cyanobacterium: relevance for interpretation of biomarker records. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 61, 5379-5389.
78. Schidlowski M, Matzigkeit U, Krumbein WE (1984) Superheavy organic carbon from hypersaline microbial mats. Naturwissenschaften 71, 303-308.
79. Schidlowski M, Gorzawski H, Dor I (1994) Carbon isotope variations in a solar pond microbial mat: role of environmental gradients as steering variables. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 58, 2289-2298.
80. Skrzypek G (2013) Normalization procedures and reference material selection in stable HCNOS isotope analyses: an overview. Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry 405, 2815-2823.
81. Skrzypek G, Sadler R, Paul D (2010) Error propagation in normalization of stable isotope data: a Monte Carlo analysis. Rapid Communication in Mass Spectrometry 24, 2697-2705.
82. Summons RE, Barrow R, Capon RJ, Hope J, Stranger C (1993) The structure of a new C25 isoprenoid alkene biomarker from diatomaceous microbial communities. Australian Journal of Chemistry 46, 907-915.
83. Summons RE, Bird LR, Gillespie AL, Pruss SB, Roberts M, Sessions AL (2013) Lipid biomarkers in ooids from different locations and ages: evidence for a common bacterial flora. Geobiology 11, 420-436.
84. Taylor J, Parkes RJ (1983) The cellular fatty acids of the sulphate-reducing bacteria. Journal of General Microbiology 129, 3303-3309.
85. Taylor J, Parkes RJ (1985) Identifying different populations of sulphate-reducing bacteria within marine sediment systems, using fatty acid biomarkers. Microbiology 131, 631-642.
86. Thiel V, Merz-Preiß M, Reitner J, Michaelis W (1997) Biomarker Studies on microbial carbonates: extractable lipids of a calcifying cyanobacterial mat (Everglades, USA). Facies 36, 163-172.
87. Thiel V, Peckmann J, Richnow HH, Luth U, Reitner J, Michaelis W (2001) Molecular signals for anaerobic methane oxidation in Black Sea seep carbonates and a microbial mat. Marine Chemistry 73, 97-112.
88. Underwood G, Smith D (1998) Predicting epipelic diatom exopolymer concentrations in intertidal sediments from sediment chlorophyll a. Microbial Ecology 35, 116-125.
89. 13C contents of bacterial lipids. Organic Geochemistry 28, 527-533.
90. van der Meer MTJ, Schouten S, de Leeuw JW, Ward DM (2000) Autotrophy of green non-sulphur bacteria in hot spring microbial mats: biological explanations for isotopically heavy organic carbon in the geological record. Environmental Microbiology 2, 428-435.
91. 13C contents of organic components in the phototrophic bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Journal of Biological Chemistry 14, 10971-10976.
92. van Kranendonk MJ, Philippot P, Lepot K, Bodorkos S, Pirajno F (2008) Geological setting of Earth's oldest fossils in the ca. 3.5 Ga Dresser Formation, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia. Precambrian Research 167, 93-124.
93. Vestal JR, White DC (1989) Lipid analysis in microbial ecology. BioScience 39, 535-541.
94. Volkman JK (1986) A review of sterol markers for marine and terrigenous organic matter. Organic Geochemistry 9, 83-99.
95. Volkman JK, Johns RB, Gillan FT, Perry GJ (1980) Microbial lipids of an intertidal sediment-I. Fatty acids and hydrocarbons. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 44, 1133-1143.
96. Volkman JK, Jeffrey SW, Nichols PD, Rogers GI, Garland CD (1989) Fatty acid and lipid composition of 10 species of microalgae used in mariculture. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 128, 219-240.
97. Volkman JK, Barrett SM, Blackburn SI, Mansour MP, Sikes EL, Gelin F (1998) Microalgal biomarkers: a review of recent research developments. Organic Geochemistry 29, 1163-1179.
98. Walker DI, Kendrick GA, McComb AJ (1988) The distribution of seagrass species in Shark Bay, Western Australia, with notes on their ecology. Aquatic Botany 30, 305-317.
99. Walter M (1994) Stromatolites: the main source of information on the evolution of the early benthos. In Early Life on Earth. (ed Bengtson S). Columbia University Press, New York, pp. 270-286.
100. Walter MR, Buick R, Dunlop JSR (1980) Stromatolites 3400-3500 Myr old from the North pole area, Western Australia. Nature 284, 443-445.
101. Wilson SE, Cumming BF, Smol JP (1994) Diatom-salinity relationships in 111 lakes from the Interior Plateau of British Columbia, Canada: the development of diatom-based models for paleosalinity reconstructions. Journal of Paleolimnology 12, 197-221.
102. Winters K, Parker PL, van Baalen C (1969) Hydrocarbons of blue-green algae: geochemical significance. Science 163, 467-468.
103. Xu Y, Mead RN, Jaffé R (2006) A molecular marker-based assessment of sedimentary organic matter sources and distributions in Florida Bay. Hydrobiologia 569, 179-192.
104. Zelles L, Bai QY, Rackwitz R, Chadwick D, Beese F (1995) Determination of phospholipid- and lipopolysaccharide-derived fatty acids as an estimate of microbial biomass and community structures in soils. Biology and Fertility of Soils 19, 115-123.
105. Zhang CL, Ye Q, Reysenbach A-L, Goetz D, Peacock A, White DC, Horita J, Cole DR, Fang J, Pratt L, Fang J, Huang Y (2004) Carbon isotopic fractionations associated with thermophilic bacteria Thermotoga maritima and Persephonella marina. Environmental Microbiology 4, 58-64.