Soil bacterial biodiversity characterization by flow cytometry: The bottleneck of cell extraction from soil

The importance of soil biodiversity is increasingly recognized in agriculture and natural resource research and development. Yet, traditional soil biodiversity assessments are costly and time-consuming, limiting the extent and frequency of sampling and analysis in space and time. Flow cytometry (FCM...

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Main Authors: El Mujtar, Veronica Andrea, Chirdo, Fernando, Lagares, Antonio, Wall, Luis, Tittonell, Pablo Adrian
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Language:Inglés
Published: Wiley 2023
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/14861
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.13876
https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13876
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author El Mujtar, Veronica Andrea
Chirdo, Fernando
Lagares, Antonio
Wall, Luis
Tittonell, Pablo Adrian
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description The importance of soil biodiversity is increasingly recognized in agriculture and natural resource research and development. Yet, traditional soil biodiversity assessments are costly and time-consuming, limiting the extent and frequency of sampling and analysis in space and time. Flow cytometry (FCM) is a powerful technique to characterize cell communities due to its high robustness and accuracy, requiring only a short time for the characterization. Therefore, FCM could expand soil research capabilities by allowing the characterization of different aspects of bacterial biodiversity. However, this implementation of FCM requires the previous dispersion, separation and purification of bacteria from complex soil matrices. Moreover, soil monitoring programs or evaluation of soil management practices require high-throughput analysis. In this context, soil processing protocols need to consider not only an adequate recovery of undamaged, representative and pure soil bacteria, but also short-time processing requirements. Although soil processing protocols have been reported over time, to our knowledge, there is no recommended soil extraction protocol for high-throughput analysis of bacterial biodiversity by FCM. We reviewed the state-of-art of the use of flow cytometry in scientific research and the protocols used for the extraction of bacteria from soil. We analysed the literature to take stock of the diversity of methodologies for soil processing and applications of flow cytometry in bacterial characterization considering abundance, diversity, community structure and functional properties. This review provides several lines of evidence of the use of flow cytometry for soil bacterial biodiversity (SBB) characterization, highlighting its potential for soil monitoring and studies on soil bacterial community dynamics. The review also highlights and discusses the most relevant constraints and research gaps that need to be considered for high-throughput analysis of SBB by FCM, such as evaluation of scale-down, new reagents for and methods of purification, threshold of bacterial recovery efficiency and selection of a standardized and validated protocol. We proposed a protocol for soil bacterial extraction for high-throughput analysis of SBB by FCM and we provided detailed databases of systematized information that would be useful to the scientific community.
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spelling INTA148612023-08-03T17:43:03Z Soil bacterial biodiversity characterization by flow cytometry: The bottleneck of cell extraction from soil El Mujtar, Veronica Andrea Chirdo, Fernando Lagares, Antonio Wall, Luis Tittonell, Pablo Adrian Bacterias del Suelo Citometría de Flujo (Células) Suelo Biodiversidad Soil Bacteria Flow Cytometry Soil Biodiversity The importance of soil biodiversity is increasingly recognized in agriculture and natural resource research and development. Yet, traditional soil biodiversity assessments are costly and time-consuming, limiting the extent and frequency of sampling and analysis in space and time. Flow cytometry (FCM) is a powerful technique to characterize cell communities due to its high robustness and accuracy, requiring only a short time for the characterization. Therefore, FCM could expand soil research capabilities by allowing the characterization of different aspects of bacterial biodiversity. However, this implementation of FCM requires the previous dispersion, separation and purification of bacteria from complex soil matrices. Moreover, soil monitoring programs or evaluation of soil management practices require high-throughput analysis. In this context, soil processing protocols need to consider not only an adequate recovery of undamaged, representative and pure soil bacteria, but also short-time processing requirements. Although soil processing protocols have been reported over time, to our knowledge, there is no recommended soil extraction protocol for high-throughput analysis of bacterial biodiversity by FCM. We reviewed the state-of-art of the use of flow cytometry in scientific research and the protocols used for the extraction of bacteria from soil. We analysed the literature to take stock of the diversity of methodologies for soil processing and applications of flow cytometry in bacterial characterization considering abundance, diversity, community structure and functional properties. This review provides several lines of evidence of the use of flow cytometry for soil bacterial biodiversity (SBB) characterization, highlighting its potential for soil monitoring and studies on soil bacterial community dynamics. The review also highlights and discusses the most relevant constraints and research gaps that need to be considered for high-throughput analysis of SBB by FCM, such as evaluation of scale-down, new reagents for and methods of purification, threshold of bacterial recovery efficiency and selection of a standardized and validated protocol. We proposed a protocol for soil bacterial extraction for high-throughput analysis of SBB by FCM and we provided detailed databases of systematized information that would be useful to the scientific community. The aim of this work was to determine the sex ratio of the offspring born fromovulations of the left or right ovaries in naturally mated llamas. Females (n=188) with thepresence of an ovarian follicle >7 mm received controlled natural mating (Day 0). Ovulationwas confirmed on day 2 by the disappearance of the ovarian follicle (n=146). Then, 104(71.2%) females diagnosed pregnant by ultrasonography were obtained 40-45 days aftermating. The mating and calving date, sex and body weight of the calf at birth wererecorded in 92 individuals. The overall sex ratio of the offspring and the sex ratio of theoffspring from each ovary were compared using the Chi-square goodness-of-fit test,with the expected ratio being 1:1. Ovulations from both ovaries produced a similar (p=0.14)proportion of calves born and the male: female ratio was similar. However, more maleoffspring originated from the left ovary than from the right (65.2 vs. 34.8%, respectively;p=0.04), although the percentages of males born originated from ovulations from the leftovary (30/53=56.6%; p=0.33) and right ovary (16/39=41.0%; p=0.26) were not differentfrom the expected ratio (1:1). The length of gestation and live weight at birth were statisticallysimilar between sexes. EEA Bariloche Fil: El Mujtar, Veronica Andrea. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche. Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche; Argentina Fil: El Mujtar, Veronica Andrea. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche (IFAB); Argentina Fil: Chirdo, Fernando. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Estudios Inmunológicos y Fisiopatológicos (IIFP); Argentina Fil: Chirdo, Fernando. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Instituto de Estudios Inmunológicos y Fisiopatológicos; Argentina Fil: Chirdo, Fernando. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas; Argentina Fil: Lagares, Antonio. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas. Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología Molecular; Argentina Fil: Lagares, Antonio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Biotecnología y Biología Molecular IBBM); Argentina Fil: Wall, Luis. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. Centro de Bioquímica y Microbiología de Suelos. Laboratorio de Bioquímica y Microbiología de Suelo; Argentina Fil: Tittonell, Pablo Adrian. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Bariloche. Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche; Argentina Fil: Tittonell, Pablo Adrian. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales y Agropecuarias Bariloche; Argentina Fil: Tittonell, Pablo Adrian. Groningen University. Groningen Institute of Evolutionary Life Sciences; Países Bajos 2023-08-03T11:48:48Z 2023-08-03T11:48:48Z 2022-07 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/14861 https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.13876 2041-210X https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13876 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf Wiley Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13 (7) : 1388-1401. (July 2022)
spellingShingle Bacterias del Suelo
Citometría de Flujo (Células)
Suelo
Biodiversidad
Soil Bacteria
Flow Cytometry
Soil
Biodiversity
El Mujtar, Veronica Andrea
Chirdo, Fernando
Lagares, Antonio
Wall, Luis
Tittonell, Pablo Adrian
Soil bacterial biodiversity characterization by flow cytometry: The bottleneck of cell extraction from soil
title Soil bacterial biodiversity characterization by flow cytometry: The bottleneck of cell extraction from soil
title_full Soil bacterial biodiversity characterization by flow cytometry: The bottleneck of cell extraction from soil
title_fullStr Soil bacterial biodiversity characterization by flow cytometry: The bottleneck of cell extraction from soil
title_full_unstemmed Soil bacterial biodiversity characterization by flow cytometry: The bottleneck of cell extraction from soil
title_short Soil bacterial biodiversity characterization by flow cytometry: The bottleneck of cell extraction from soil
title_sort soil bacterial biodiversity characterization by flow cytometry the bottleneck of cell extraction from soil
topic Bacterias del Suelo
Citometría de Flujo (Células)
Suelo
Biodiversidad
Soil Bacteria
Flow Cytometry
Soil
Biodiversity
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/14861
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