| Literature DB >> 22828185 |
Joseph S Pitula1, Whitney D Dyson, Habibul B Bakht, Ihuoma Njoku, Feng Chen.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Significant damage to crustacean fisheries worldwide has been associated with Hematodinium sp. It has been postulated that Hematodinium sp. requires passage through the water column and/or intermediate hosts to complete its life cycle. Thus, an understanding of the prevalence and seasonality of Hematodinium sp. within environmentally-derived samples should yield insight into potential modes of disease transmission, and how these relate to infection cycles in hosts.Entities:
Year: 2012 PMID: 22828185 PMCID: PMC3413547 DOI: 10.1186/2046-9063-8-16
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Aquat Biosyst ISSN: 2046-9063
Figure 1A. Map of the Delmarva peninsula, showing both Chesapeake Bay and coastal bays. Boxed in the inset is the study site described in this work, and is shown in greater detail in Figure 1B. B. Water quality monitoring stations in a Maryland and Virginia coastal bay ecosystem. From April through November of 2010 and 2011, sediment and water samples were collected from 18 sites south of the Ocean City inlet, and adjacent to the Assateague Island National Seashore Park. The sampling stations are monitored yearly by the National Park Service water quality program. DNA was extracted from these samples for subsequent PCR analysis to monitor the presence of Hematodinium sp. Figure courtesy of the National Park Service. Sites: 1, Commercial Harbor; 2, Verrazano Bridge; 3, Newport Bay; 4, Trappe Creek; 5, Public Landing; 6, Whittington Point; 7, Taylor’s Landing; 8, Wildcat Point; 9, Greenbackville; 10, Sinnickson; 11, Chincoteague Channel; 12, Assateague Channel; 13, Tom’s Cove; 14, Johnson’s Bay; 15, Cedar Island; 16, South Point; 17, Ocean City Inlet; 18, Snug Harbor.
sp. presence in a coastal bay ecosystem
| Site 1 | Commercial Harbor | 7_10 | 8_11 |
| Site 2 | Verrazano Bridge | 9_10 | 4_10; 5_10; 7_10; 8_11 |
| Site 3 | Newport Bay | 6_10; 9_10 | 6_10; 8_11 |
| Site 4 | Trappe Creek | 4/10; 7/10 | 8_11 |
| Site 5 | Public Landing | 6_10; 9_10 | 5_10; 8_11 |
| Site 6 | Whittington Point | | 8_10; 8_11 |
| Site 7 | Taylor's Landing | 4/10; 6/10; 7/10 | |
| Site 8 | Wildcat Point | | 8_10; 8_11 |
| Site 9 | Greenbackville | 6_10 | 8_11 |
| Site 10 | Sinnickson | 4_10; 6_10; 7_10; 8_10; 10_10 | 5_10; 7_10; 8_10; 10_10; 11_10 |
| Site 11 | Chincoteague Channel | 7_10 | |
| Site 13 | Tom's Cove | 6_11 | 8_10; 10_10; 8_11 |
| Site 14 | Johnson's Bay | 4_10; 6_10 | |
| Site 15 | Cedar Island | 7_10 | |
| Site 18 | Snug Harbor | 10_10 | 4_10; 6_10 |
Shown are the sites and dates in which Hematodinium sp. detection occurred, based upon gene-specific PCR analysis. The sites correspond to those labeled in Figure 1B. Dates are indicated by the month, followed by the year. Typically sampling was conducted in the second week of each month, unless weather conditions precluded collection to the third week.
Dinoflagellate species present in water samples from Sinnickson, VA in 2010
| April | 15/16 | 1 unidentified nanoflagellate |
| June | 2/13 | 10 |
| July/August | 13/25 | 3 |
| October | 10/16 | 2 |
Shown are sequencing results from analysis of libraries generated using dinoflagellate-specific 18 S rRNA.
Figure 2Proportion ofsp. in water samples from Sinnickson, VA in 2010. Shown is a graphical representation of the percentage of Hematodinium sp. clones, relative to other species detected, as derived from clone library results presented in Table 2.
Figure 3Phylogenetic analysis based on the partial 18 S rRNA gene sequences retrieved from clone libraries. The un-rooted Neighbor-joining tree was constructed based on the aligned DNA sequences with bootstrap value of 100, with bootstrap values less than 50 not shown.
Relative identity ofclones derived from three hotspots of environmental presence
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| p/w April 2010 | 13/16 | 81% |
| Sed August 2010 | 3/3 | 100% |
| Sed November 2010 | 25/27 | 93% |
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| p/w June 2010 | 12/14 | 86% |
| Sed August 2010 | 16/20 | 80% |
| Sed November 2010 | 25/36 | 69% |
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| p/w June 2011 | 5/5 | 100% |
| Sed June 2010 | 10/12 | 83% |
| 109/131 | 83% |
Clone libraries were generated from Hematodinium-specific ITS1/5.8 S rRNA primers used in our initial detection assays, with locations and dates of analysis. Identical sequences were present in 83% of the clones in the libraries. p/w: plankton-water samples; Sed: sediment samples.
Figure 4Sequence alignment ofsp. clones. The consensus sequence from 131 environmental clones, derived from 109 identical sequences, is designated by “+”, and is aligned with the four most divergent clones in the library; one clone from Tom’s Cove (TC) in August, and three from November. Also shown is alignment with GenBank sequences from C. sapidus isolates (Csap: Accession DQ925229 joined with JN641990) and the portunid crab Liocarcinus depurator (Ldepur: Accession EF153729 joined with JN641974). The triangle (▲) indicates the boundary between ITS1 and the 5.8 S rRNA gene.