A Timeline of Bacterial and Archaeal Diversification in the Ocean

Author:

Martinez-Gutierrez Carolina A.,Uyeda Josef C.,Aylward Frank O.

Abstract

ABSTRACTMicrobial plankton play a central role in marine biogeochemical cycles, but the timing in which abundant lineages diversified into ocean environments remains unclear. Here, we reconstructed the timeline in which major clades of bacteria and archaea colonized the ocean using a high-resolution benchmarked phylogenetic tree that allows for simultaneous and direct comparison of the ages of multiple divergent lineages. Our findings show that the diversification of the most prevalent marine clades spans throughout a period of 2.2 Ga, with most clades colonizing the ocean in the last 800 million years. The earliest clades - SAR202, SAR324, Marinimicrobia, and Marine Group II - diversified around the time of the Great Oxidation Event (GOE), during which oxygen concentration increased but remained at microaerophilic levels throughout the Mid-Proterozoic, and these groups remain prevalent in oxygen minimum zones today. We found the diversification of the prevalent heterotrophic marine clades, SAR11, SAR116, SAR92, SAR86, and Roseobacter as well as the Marine Group I, occurring near to the Neoproterozoic Oxygenation Event (0.8-0.4 Ga). The diversification of these clades is concomitant with an overall increase of oxygen and nutrients in the ocean at this time, as well as the diversification of eukaryotic algae consistent with the previous hypothesis that the diversification of heterotrophic bacteria is linked to the emergence of large eukaryotic phytoplankton. The youngest clades correspond to the widespread phototrophic cladesProchlorococcus, Synechococcus,andCrocosphaera, whose diversification happened after the Phanerozoic Oxidation Event (0.45-0.4 Ga) and the increase of modern oxygen concentrations in the atmosphere and the ocean. Our work clarifies the timing at which abundant lineages of bacteria and archaea colonized the ocean, thereby providing key insights into the evolutionary history of lineages that comprise the majority of prokaryotic biomass in the ocean.

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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