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Single-celled bioturbators: benthic foraminifera mediate oxygen penetration and prokaryotic diversity in intertidal sediment
Univ. Lille, CNRS, IRD, Univ. du Littoral Côte d'Opale, UMR 8187, LOG, Laboratoire d'Océanologie et de Géosciences, Station Marine de Wimereux, 59000, Lille, France
Evolution, Cell Biology, & Symbiosis Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, 1919-1 Tancha, Onna-son, Kunigami-gun, Okinawa, 904-0495, Japan
now at: Univ Brest, CNRS, Ifremer, UMR6197 Biologie et Ecologie des Ecosystèmes marins Profonds, 29280, Plouzané, France
Florian Mermillod-Blondin
Univ. Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, ENTPE, UMR 5023 LEHNA, Laboratoire d'Ecologie des Hydrosystèmes Naturels et Anthropisés, 69622, Villeurbanne, France
Noémie Deldicq
Univ. Lille, CNRS, IRD, Univ. du Littoral Côte d'Opale, UMR 8187, LOG, Laboratoire d'Océanologie et de Géosciences, Station Marine de Wimereux, 59000, Lille, France
Arthur Bauville
Center for Mathematical Science and Advanced Technology, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, 236-0001, Japan
now at: Axelspace Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
Gwendoline Duong
Univ. Lille, CNRS, IRD, Univ. du Littoral Côte d'Opale, UMR 8187, LOG, Laboratoire d'Océanologie et de Géosciences, Station Marine de Wimereux, 59000, Lille, France
Lara Konecny
Univ. Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, ENTPE, UMR 5023 LEHNA, Laboratoire d'Ecologie des Hydrosystèmes Naturels et Anthropisés, 69622, Villeurbanne, France
Mylène Hugoni
Univ. Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, INSA de Lyon, UMR 5240 MAP, Microbiologie, Adaptation et Pathogénie, 69622, Villeurbanne, France
Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), 75005, Paris, France
Lionel Denis
Univ. Lille, CNRS, IRD, Univ. du Littoral Côte d'Opale, UMR 8187, LOG, Laboratoire d'Océanologie et de Géosciences, Station Marine de Wimereux, 59000, Lille, France
Vincent M. P. Bouchet
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Univ. Lille, CNRS, IRD, Univ. du Littoral Côte d'Opale, UMR 8187, LOG, Laboratoire d'Océanologie et de Géosciences, Station Marine de Wimereux, 59000, Lille, France
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Benthic foraminifera are single-cell marine organisms which can move in the sediment column. They were previously reported to horizontally and vertically transport sediment particles, yet the impact of their motion on the dissolved fluxes remains unknown. Using microprofiling, we show here that foraminiferal burrow formation increases the oxygen penetration depth in the sediment, leading to a change in the structure of the prokaryotic community.
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