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Differential impact of top-down and bottom-up forces in structuring freshwater bacterial communities

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Limited data exists on the simultaneous impact of bottom-up (nutrients) and top-down (viruses and heterotrophic nanoflagellates) forces in shaping freshwater bacterial communities. In our laboratory microcosms, nutrient additions (organic and inorganic) and viral reduction approach led to the proliferation of high nucleic acid (HNA) bacterial subpopulation without an increase in phage abundance. High viral-mediated bacterial lysis in the presence of nanoflagellates yielded high proportion of low nucleic acid bacterial subpopulation. 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis indicated that members of class Proteobacteria and Bacteroidetes evoked differential responses to nutrients and mortality forces thereby resulting in differences (p < 0.001) in bacterial community composition and diversity, as observed from ANOSIM and UniFrac analysis. Bacterial species richness (Chao) and diversity (Shannon) index was significantly higher (p < 0.001) in the presence of both the top-down factors and viruses alone, whereas lower host diversity was observed under nutrient relaxation of growth limiting substrates due to the explosive growth of opportunistic HNA bacterial subpopulation. Our results are in agreement with the theoretical model of 'Killing the Winner' where the availability of growth limiting substrates can act as a stimulating factor for host community composition while top-down forces can operate in the control of host diversity.
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hal-03037880 , version 1 (03-12-2020)

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A Pradeep ram, J Keshri, T Sime-Ngando. Differential impact of top-down and bottom-up forces in structuring freshwater bacterial communities. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2020, 96 (2), ⟨10.1093/femsec/fiaa005⟩. ⟨hal-03037880⟩
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