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Article Dans Une Revue FEMS Microbiology Ecology Année : 2022

Protist feeding patterns and growth rate are related to their predatory impacts on soil bacterial communities

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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. In vitro determination of traits, including growth rate and feeding patterns on a selection of bacterial isolates, has the potential to predict the species-specific predatory impact of protists on soil bacterial community.
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Nathalie Amacker, Zhilei Gao, Jie Hu, Alexandre L. C. Jousset, George A. Kowalchuk, et al.. Protist feeding patterns and growth rate are related to their predatory impacts on soil bacterial communities. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 2022, 98 (6), pp.fiac057. ⟨10.1093/femsec/fiac057⟩. ⟨hal-03687556⟩
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