Project description:Free-living nano-sized flagellates are important bacterivores in aquatic habitats. However, some slightly larger forms can also be omnivorous, i.e., forage upon both bacterial and eukaryotic resources. This hitherto largely ignored feeding mode may have pronounced implications for the interpretation of experiments about protistan bacterivory. We followed the response of an uncultured group of omnivorous cercozoan nanoflagellates from the Novel Clade 2 (Cerc_BAL02) to experimental food web manipulation in samples from the Gulf of Gda?sk (Southern Baltic Sea). Seawater was either prefiltered through 5 µm filters to exclude larger predators of nanoflagellates (F-treatment), or prefiltered and subsequently 1?10 diluted with sterile seawater (F+D-treatment) to stimulate the growth of both, flagellates and bacteria. Initially, Cerc_BAL02 were rapidly enriched under both conditions. They foraged on both, eukaryotic prey and bacteria, and were highly competitive at low concentrations of food. However, these omnivores were later only successful in the F+D treatment, where they eventually represented almost one fifth of all aplastidic nanoflagellates. By contrast, their numbers stagnated in the F-treatment, possibly due to top-down control by a concomitant bloom of other, unidentified flagellates. In analogy with observations about the enrichment of opportunistically growing bacteria in comparable experimental setups we suggest that the low numbers of omnivorous Cerc_Bal02 flagellates in waters of the Gulf of Gda?sk might also be related to their vulnerability to grazing pressure.

| S-EPMC3180281 | biostudies-literature

Microbial communities in shallow coastal waters

Project description:Variability of nitrifying communities in surface coastal waters of the Eastern South Pacific (~36° S)

| PRJEB6968 | ENA

Transcription profiling of wild hornyhead turbot from polluted and clean coast waters to analyse endocrine disruption in southern Salifornia coastal fish

Project description:A custom multi-species microarray was used to study gene expression in wild hornyhead turbot (Pleuronichthys verticalis), collected from polluted and clean coastal waters in Southern California and in laboratory male zebrafish (Danio rerio) following exposure to estradiol and 4-nonylphenol. A multi-gene cross species microarray was fabricated as a diagnostic tool to screen the effects of environmental chemicals in fish, for which there is minimal genomic information. The microarray measurement of gene expression in zebrafish, which are phylogenetically distant from turbot, indicates that this multi-species microarray will be useful for measuring endocrine responses in Pleuronectiformes and other fish for which there is minimal genomic sequence information.

2009-07-17 | E-MTAB-43 | biostudies-arrayexpress

Phytoplankton communities in Eastern Mediterranean coastal waters

Project description:Nitrate-enrichment structures phytoplankton communities in the shallow eastern Mediterranean coastal waters

| PRJEB40572 | ENA

Transcription profiling of hornyhead turbot collected from polluted and clean coastal waters in southern California and zebrafish treated with estradiol and 4 nonylphenol

2009-07-17 | E-MTAB-44 | biostudies-arrayexpress

Ciliates from Chinese and European coastal waters

Project description:Biodiversity and geographic distribution patterns of marine planktonic ciliates from Chinese and European coastal waters

| PRJNA714531 | ENA