Estimation of carbon biomass and community structure of planktonic bacteria in Lake Biwa using respiratory quinone analysis
Estimation of carbon biomass and community structure of planktonic bacteria in Lake Biwa using respiratory quinone analysis
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利用呼吸醌分析估算琵琶湖浮游细菌的碳生物量和群落结构
DOI:
10.1007/s10201-013-0402-3
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发表时间:
2013
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1.6
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S.
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作者:
Takasu;H.;Kunihiro;T.;Nakano;S.
The relationship between bacterial respiratory quinone (RQ) concentration and biomass was assessed for Lake Biwa bacterial assemblages to evaluate the utility of bacterial RQ concentration as an indicator of bacterial carbon. The biomass estimated from the RQ concentration correlated well with that from cell volume, indicating that RQ concentration is an appropriate indicator of bacterial biomass. The estimated carbon content per unit of RQ (carbon conversion factor) of bacteria was 0.67 mg C nmol RQ−1. Bacterial carbon biomass, which was estimated from the RQ concentration using the conversion factor, ranged between 0.008 and 0.054 mg C L−1(average 0.025 mg C L−1) at 5 m depth and between 0.010 and 0.024 mg C L−1(average 0.015 mg C L−1) at 70 m depth. Ubiquinone-8-containing bacteria dominated the epilimnion and hypolimnion. Compared to conventional image analysis, bacterial RQ analysis is a less laborious method of simultaneously determining bacterial biomass and community.