Selective Bacterial Community Enrichment between the Pitcher Plants Sarracenia minor and Sarracenia flava.

ABSTRACT: The interconnected and overlapping habitats present in natural ecosystems remain a challenge in determining the forces driving microbial community composition. The cuplike leaf structures of some carnivorous plants, including those of the family Sarraceniaceae, are self-contained ecological habitats that represent systems for exploring such microbial ecology questions. We investigated whether Sarracenia minor and Sarracenia flava cultivate distinct bacterial communities when sampled at the same geographic location and time. This sampling strategy eliminates many abiotic environmental variables present in other studies that compare samples harvested over time, and it could reveal biotic factors driving the selection of microbes. DNA extracted from the decomposing detritus trapped in

SUBMITTER: Yourstone SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8612160 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature