ArticleNature communications2021
Community and single cell analyses reveal complex predatory interactions between bacteria in high diversity systems.
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- Predation in microbial communities: gradients of nutritive killing.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2026Review
- From microbes to animals: a review on prey choice and prey-predator dynamics across organismal scales.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2026Review
- Genome assembly and functional predation analysis of novelFrontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Two-step localization driven by peptidoglycan hydrolase in interbacterial predation.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- A hunting ground for predatory bacteria at the Zhenbei seamount in the South China Sea.ISME communications · 2025Article
- Microbial community shifts during salt mitigation treatments of historic buildings using mineral poultices: a long-term monitoring of salt and associated biofilms.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
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- Regulation of Antibiotic Resistance Genes on Agricultural Land Is Dependent on Both Choice of Organic Amendment and Prevalence of Predatory Bacteria.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- DNA stable isotope probing reveals the impact of trophic interactions on bioaugmentation of soils with different pollution histories.Microbiome · 2024Article
- Predatory Bacteria in the Treatment of Infectious Diseases and Beyond.Infectious disease reports · 2024Review
- Unbalanced predatory communities and a lack of microbial degraders characterize the microbiota of a highly sewage-polluted Eastern-Mediterranean stream.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2024Article
- Effects of operational parameters on bacterial communities in Hong Kong and global wastewater treatment plants.mSystems · 2024Article
- Isolation and characterization of aFrontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Predatory bacteria as potential biofilm control and eradication agents in the food industry.Food science and biotechnology · 2023Review
- Self-demise of soft rot bacteria by activation of microbial predators by pectin-based carriers.Microbial biotechnology · 2023Article
- Phylogenetic Revisit to a Review on Predatory Bacteria.Microorganisms · 2023Review
- Potential of Predatory Bacteria to Colonize the Duckweed Microbiome and Change Its Structure: A Model Study Using the Obligate Predatory Bacterium, Bacteriovorax sp. HI3.Microbes and environments · 2023Article
- The Stimulation of Indigenous Bacterial Antagonists by γ-Glutamyl-Applied and environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- The role of mathematical modelling in understanding prokaryotic predation.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Review
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Abstract
A fundamental question in community ecology is the role of predator-prey interactions in food-web stability and species coexistence. Although microbial microcosms offer powerful systems to investigate it, interrogating the environment is much more arduous. Here, we show in a 1-year survey that the obligate predators Bdellovibrio and like organisms (BALOs) can regulate prey populations, possibly in a density-dependent manner, in the naturally complex, species-rich environments of wastewater treatment plants. Abundant as well as rarer prey populations are affected, leading to an oscillating predatory landscape shifting at various temporal scales in which the total population remains stable. Shifts, along with differential prey range, explain co-existence of the numerous predators through niche partitioning. We validate these sequence-based findings using single-cell sorting combined with fluorescent hybridization and community sequencing. Our approach should be applicable for deciphering community interactions in other systems.
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