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

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) protis

SUBMITTER: Amacker N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9126823 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature