ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2010
The carnivorous pale pitcher plant harbors diverse, distinct, and time-dependent bacterial communities.
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- Selective Bacterial Community Enrichment between the Pitcher Plants Sarracenia minor and Sarracenia flava.Microbiology spectrum · 2021Article
- Tropical pitcher plants (Nepenthes) act as ecological filters by altering properties of their fluid microenvironments.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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- Regulation of Hydrolytic Enzyme Activity in Aquatic Microbial Communities Hosted by Carnivorous Pitcher Plants.Microbial ecology · 2018Article
- Convergence between the microcosms of Southeast Asian and North American pitcher plants.eLife · 2018Article
- The hologenome concept of evolution after 10 years.Microbiome · 2018Review
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- Evaluating the adaptive evolutionary convergence of carnivorous plant taxa through functional genomics.PeerJ · 2018Article
- Environmental proteomics reveals taxonomic and functional changes in an enriched aquatic ecosystem.Ecosphere (Washington, D.C) · 2017Article
- Effects of prey, pitcher age, and microbes on acid phosphatase activity in fluid from pitchers of Sarracenia purpurea (Sarraceniaceae).PloS one · 2017Article
- Comparative Study of Bacterial Communities in Nepenthes Pitchers and Their Correlation to Species and Fluid Acidity.Microbial ecology · 2016Article
- Bacterial Diversity and Community Structure in Two Bornean Nepenthes Species with Differences in Nitrogen Acquisition Strategies.Microbial ecology · 2016Article
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- Microbiome and Biocatalytic Bacteria in Monkey Cup (Nepenthes Pitcher) Digestive Fluid.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Where Is My Food? Brazilian Flower Fly Steals Prey from Carnivorous Sundews in a Newly Discovered Plant-Animal Interaction.PloS one · 2016Article
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Abstract
The ability of American carnivorous pitcher plants (Sarracenia) to digest insect prey is facilitated by microbial associations. Knowledge of the details surrounding this interaction has been limited by our capability to characterize bacterial diversity in this system. To describe microbial diversity within and between pitchers of one species, Sarracenia alata, and to explore how these communities change over time as pitchers accumulate and digest insect prey, we collected and analyzed environmental sequence tag (454 pyrosequencing) and genomic fingerprint (automated ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis and terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism) data. Microbial richness associated with pitcher plant fluid is high; more than 1,000 unique phylogroups were identified across at least seven phyla and 50 families. We documented an increase in bacterial diversity and abundance with time and observed repeated changes in bacterial community composition. Pitchers from different plants harbored significantly more similar bacterial communities at a given time point than communities coming from the same genetic host over time. The microbial communities in pitcher plant fluid also differ significantly from those present in the surrounding soil. These findings indicate that the bacteria associated with pitcher plant leaves are far from random assemblages and represent an important step toward understanding this unique plant-microbe interaction.
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