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Community and single cell analyses reveal complex predatory interactions between bacteria in high diversity systems

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  • Yossi Cohen

    (Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

  • Zohar Pasternak

    (Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    Division of Identification and Forensic Science, Israel Police, National Headquarters)

  • Susann Müller

    (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Permoserstrasse 15)

  • Thomas Hübschmann

    (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Permoserstrasse 15)

  • Florian Schattenberg

    (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Permoserstrasse 15)

  • Kunjukrishnan Kamalakshi Sivakala

    (Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

  • Alfred Abed-Rabbo

    (Faculty of Science, Bethlehem University)

  • Antonis Chatzinotas

    (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Permoserstrasse 15
    Institute of Biology, Leipzig University, Talstrasse 33
    Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e)

  • Edouard Jurkevitch

    (Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Abstract

A fundamental question in community ecology is the role of predator–prey interactions in food-web stability and species coexistence. Although microbial microcosms offer powerful systems to investigate it, interrogating the environment is much more arduous. Here, we show in a 1-year survey that the obligate predators Bdellovibrio and like organisms (BALOs) can regulate prey populations, possibly in a density-dependent manner, in the naturally complex, species-rich environments of wastewater treatment plants. Abundant as well as rarer prey populations are affected, leading to an oscillating predatory landscape shifting at various temporal scales in which the total population remains stable. Shifts, along with differential prey range, explain co-existence of the numerous predators through niche partitioning. We validate these sequence-based findings using single-cell sorting combined with fluorescent hybridization and community sequencing. Our approach should be applicable for deciphering community interactions in other systems.

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  • Yossi Cohen & Zohar Pasternak & Susann Müller & Thomas Hübschmann & Florian Schattenberg & Kunjukrishnan Kamalakshi Sivakala & Alfred Abed-Rabbo & Antonis Chatzinotas & Edouard Jurkevitch, 2021. "Community and single cell analyses reveal complex predatory interactions between bacteria in high diversity systems," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 12(1), pages 1-13, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:12:y:2021:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-021-25824-9
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25824-9
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