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From the Andes to the desert: 16S rRNA metabarcoding characterization of aquatic bacterial communities in the Rimac river, the main source of water for Lima, Peru

dc.contributor.author Romero P.E. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Calla-Quispe E. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Castillo-Vilcahuaman C. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Yokoo M. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Fuentes-Rivera H.L. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Ramirez J.L. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Ampuero A. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Ibáñez A.J. es_PE
dc.contributor.author Wong P. es_PE
dc.date.accessioned 2024-05-30T23:13:38Z
dc.date.available 2024-05-30T23:13:38Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.description.abstract The Rimac river is the main source of water for Lima, Peru's capital megacity. The river is constantly affected by different types of contamination including mine tailings in the Andes and urban sewage in the metropolitan area. In this work, we aim to produce the first characterization of aquatic bacterial communities in the Rimac river using a 16S rRNA metabarcoding approach which would be useful to identify bacterial diversity and potential understudied pathogens. We report a lower diversity in bacterial communities from the Lower Rimac (Metropolitan zone) in comparison to other sub-basins. Samples were generally grouped according to their geographical location. Bacterial classes Alphaproteobacteria, Bacteroidia, Campylobacteria, Fusobacteriia, and Gammaproteobacteria were the most frequent along the river. Arcobacter cryaerophilus (Campylobacteria) was the most frequent species in the Lower Rimac while Flavobacterium succinicans (Bacteroidia) and Hypnocyclicus (Fusobacteriia) were the most predominant in the Upper Rimac. Predicted metabolic functions in the microbiota include bacterial motility and quorum sensing. Additional metabolomic analyses showed the presence of some insecticides and herbicides in the Parac-Upper Rimac and Santa Eulalia-Parac sub-basins. The dominance in the Metropolitan area of Arcobacter cryaerophilus, an emergent pathogen associated with fecal contamination and antibiotic multiresistance, that is not usually reported in traditional microbiological quality assessments, highlights the necessity to apply next-generation sequencing tools to improve pathogen surveillance. We believe that our study will encourage the integration of omics sciences in Peru and its application on current environmental and public health issues. © 2021 Romero et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
dc.description.sponsorship Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica - Concytec
dc.identifier.citation Romero PE, Calla-Quispe E, Castillo-Vilcahuaman C, Yokoo M, Fuentes-Rivera HL, Ramirez JL, et al. (2021) From the Andes to the desert: 16S rRNA metabarcoding characterization of aquatic bacterial communities in the Rimac river, the main source of water for Lima, Peru. PLoS ONE 16(4): e0250401. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250401
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250401
dc.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-85104810362
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12390/2359
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Public Library of Science
dc.relation.ispartof urn:issn:1932-6203
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject Water pollution
dc.subject Rivers es_PE
dc.subject Metabolomics es_PE
dc.subject Urban areas es_PE
dc.subject Campylobacter es_PE
dc.subject Bacterial pathogens es_PE
dc.subject Ribosomal RNA es_PE
dc.subject Metabolic analysis es_PE
dc.subject.ocde http://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.07.01
dc.title From the Andes to the desert: 16S rRNA metabarcoding characterization of aquatic bacterial communities in the Rimac river, the main source of water for Lima, Peru
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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