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SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 38, Issue 5, Pages 330-339Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.syapm.2015.05.006
Keywords
Alphaproteobacteria; Borneo; CARD-FISH; Gammaproteobacteria; NMDS; Pyrosequencing
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- University Research Priority Program in Systems Biology/Functional Genomics and Global Change and Biodiversity at the University of Zurich
- SystemsX.ch
- Swiss National Foundation
- JSPS
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [14J11547] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Pitchers. are modified leaves used by carnivorous plants for trapping prey. Their fluids contain digestive enzymes from the plant and they harbor abundant microbes. In this study, the diversity of bacterial communities was assessed in Nepenthes pitcher fluids and the composition of the bacterial community was compared to that in other environments, including the phyllosphere of Arabidopsis, animal guts and another pitcher plant, Sarracenia. Diversity was measured by 454 pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA gene amplicons. A total of 232,823 sequences were obtained after chimera and singleton removal that clustered into 3260 distinct operational taxonomic units (OTUs) (3% dissimilarity), which were taxonomically distributed over 17 phyla, 25 classes, 45 orders, 100 families, and 195 genera. Pyrosequencing and fluorescence in situ hybridization yielded similar estimates of community composition. Most pitchers contained high proportions of unique OTUs, and only 22 OTUs (<0.6%) were shared by >= 14/16 samples, suggesting a unique bacterial assemblage in each pitcher at the OTU level. Diversity analysis at the class level revealed that the bacterial communities of both opened and unopened pitchers were most similar to that of Sarracenia and to that in the phyllosphere. Therefore, the bacterial community in pitchers may be formed by environmental filtering and/or by phyllosphere bacteria. (C) 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier GmbH.
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