ArticleFEMS microbiology ecology2022
Protist feeding patterns and growth rate are related to their predatory impacts on soil bacterial communities.
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- Microbial metacommunity of salt marshes rebuilds along an elevational gradient after initial disturbance.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Identity and timing of protist inoculation affect plant performance largely irrespective of changes in the rhizosphere microbial community.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- Pleiotropic regulation of bacterial toxin production and Allee effect govern microbial predator-prey interactions.ISME communications · 2025Article
- Protist size-dependent shifts of bacterial communities can reduce litter decomposition.ISME communications · 2025Article
- Beyond correlation: Understanding the causal link between microbiome and plant health.Heliyon · 2024Review
- Specialized protist communities on mycorrhizal fungal hyphae.Mycorrhiza · 2024Article
- DNA stable isotope probing reveals the impact of trophic interactions on bioaugmentation of soils with different pollution histories.Microbiome · 2024Article
- Nutrient-dependent cross-kingdom interactions in the hyphosphere of an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- The impact of protozoa addition on the survivability of Bacillus inoculants and soil microbiome dynamics.ISME communications · 2022Article
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Predatory protists are major consumers of soil micro-organisms. By selectively feeding on their prey, they can shape soil microbiome composition and functions. While different protists are known to show diverging impacts, it remains impossible to predict a priori the effect of a given species. Various protist traits including phylogenetic distance, growth rate and volume have been previously linked to the predatory impact of protists. Closely related protists, however, also showed distinct prey choices which could mirror specificity in their dietary niche. We, therefore, aimed to estimate the dietary niche breadth and overlap of eight protist isolates on 20 bacterial species in plate assays. To assess the informative value of previously suggested and newly proposed (feeding-related) protist traits, we related them to the impacts of predation of each protist on a protist-free soil bacterial community in a soil microcosm via 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. We could demonstrate that each protist showed a distinct feeding pattern in vitro. Further, the assayed protist feeding patterns and growth rates correlated well with the observed predatory impacts on the structure of soil bacterial communities. We thus conclude that in vitro screening has the potential to inform on the specific predatory impact of selected protists.
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