ArticlePloS one2014
Effects of a ciliate protozoa predator on microbial communities in pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) leaves.
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- An inquiline mosquito modulates microbial diversity and function in an aquatic microecosystem.Molecular ecology · 2024Article
- Analysis of the northern pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea L.) phytotelm bacteriome throughout a temperate region growing season.PloS one · 2024Article
- Prey identity affects fitness of a generalist consumer in a brown food web.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Effect of Predation by Colpoda sp. in Nitrogen Fixation Rate of Two Free-Living Bacteria.Microbial ecology · 2022Article
- Bacterial Recruitment to Carnivorous Pitcher Plant Communities: Identifying Sources Influencing Plant Microbiome Composition and Function.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
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- Regulation of Hydrolytic Enzyme Activity in Aquatic Microbial Communities Hosted by Carnivorous Pitcher Plants.Microbial ecology · 2018Article
- Synergistic Interactions within a Multispecies Biofilm Enhance Individual Species Protection against Grazing by a Pelagic Protozoan.Frontiers in microbiology · 2017Article
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Abstract
The aquatic communities found within the water filled leaves of the pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea, have a simple trophic structure providing an ideal system to study microscale interactions between protozoan predators and their bacterial prey. In this study, replicate communities were maintained with and without the presence of the bactivorous protozoan, Colpoda steinii, to determine the effects of grazing on microbial communities. Changes in microbial (Archaea and Bacteria) community structure were assessed using iTag sequencing of 16S rRNA genes. The microbial communities were similar with and without the protozoan predator, with>1000 species. Of these species, Archaea were negligible, with Bacteria comprising 99.99% of the microbial community. The Proteobacteria and Bacteroidetes were the most dominant phyla. The addition of a protozoan predator did not have a significant effect on microbial evenness nor richness. However, the presence of the protozoan did cause a significant shift in the relative abundances of a number of bacterial species. This suggested that bactivorous protozoan may target specific bacterial species and/or that certain bacterial species have innate mechanisms by which they evade predators. These findings help to elucidate the effect that trophic structure perturbations have on predator prey interactions in microbial systems.
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