Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2022
Journal / Book Title
Nature Communications
Abstract
Antarctica is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change on Earth and studying the past and present responses of this polar marine ecosystem to environmental change is a matter of urgency. Sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) analysis can provide such insights into past ecosystem-wide changes. Here we present authenticated (through extensive contamination control and sedaDNA damage analysis) metagenomic marine eukaryote sedaDNA from the Scotia Sea region acquired during IODP Expedition 382. We also provide a marine eukaryote sedaDNA record of ~1 Mio. years and diatom and chlorophyte sedaDNA dating back to ~540 ka (using taxonomic marker genes SSU, LSU, psbO). We find evidence of warm phases being associated with high relative diatom abundance, and a marked transition from diatoms comprising < 10% of all eukaryotes prior to ~14.5 ka, to ~50% after this time, i.e., following Meltwater Pulse 1A, alongside a composition change from sea-ice to open-ocean species. Our study demonstrates that sedaDNA tools can be expanded to hundreds of thousands of years, opening the pathway to the study of ecosystem-wide marine shifts and paleo-productivity phases throughout multiple glacial-interglacial cycles.
DOI
10.1038/s41467-022-33494-4
Journal ISSN / Book ISBN
85139127669 (Scopus)
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Armbrecht, Linda; Weber, Michael E.; Raymo, Maureen E.; Peck, Victoria L.; Williams, Trevor; Warnock, Jonathan; Kato, Yuji; Hernández-Almeida, Iván; Hoem, Frida; Reilly, Brendan; Hemming, Sidney; Bailey, Ian; Martos, Yasmina M.; Gutjahr, Marcus; Percuoco, Vincent; Allen, Claire; Brachfeld, Stefanie; Cardillo, Fabricio G.; Du, Zhiheng; Fauth, Gerson; Fogwill, Chris; Garcia, Marga; Glüder, Anna; Guitard, Michelle; Hwang, Ji Hwan; Iizuka, Mutsumi; Kenlee, Bridget; O’Connell, Suzanne; Pérez, Lara F.; Ronge, Thomas A.; Seki, Osamu; and Tauxe, Lisa, "Ancient marine sediment DNA reveals diatom transition in Antarctica" (2022). Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 710.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/earth-environ-studies-facpubs/710
Published Citation
Armbrecht, L., Weber, M.E., Raymo, M.E. et al. Ancient marine sediment DNA reveals diatom transition in Antarctica. Nat Commun 13, 5787 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33494-4
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