Aquatic insects differentially affect lake sturgeon larval phenotypes and egg surface microbial communities.

ABSTRACT: Documentation of how interactions among members of different stream communities [e.g., microbial communities and aquatic insect taxa exhibiting different feeding strategies (FS)] collectively influence the growth, survival, and recruitment of stream fishes is limited. Considerable spatial overlap exists between early life stages of stream fishes, including species of conservation concern like lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens), and aquatic insects and microbial taxa that abundantly occupy substrates on which spawning occurs. Habitat overlap suggests that species interactions across trophic levels may be common, but outcomes of these interactions are poorly understood. We conducted an experiment where lake sturgeon eggs were fertilized and incubated in the presence of individuals from one

SUBMITTER: Walquist RW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9678266 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature