The bacterioplankton community composition and a host genotype dependent occurrence of taxa shape the Daphnia magna gut bacterial community.

ABSTRACT: The assembly of host-associated bacterial communities is influenced by a multitude of biotic and abiotic factors. It is essential to gain insight in the impact and relative strength of these factors if we want to be able to predict the effects of environmental change on the assembly of host-associated bacterial communities, or deliberately modify them. The environmental pool of bacteria, from which the host is colonized, and the genetic background of the host are both considered to be important in determining the composition of host-associated bacterial communities. We experimentally assessed the relative importance of these two factors and their interaction on the composition of Daphnia magna gut bacterial communities. Bacterioplankton originating from natural ponds or a laboratory cultur

SUBMITTER: Callens M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7360484 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature