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Katarina Hedlund

Katarina Hedlund

Professor

Katarina Hedlund

Diversity of bacteria associated with grassland soil nematodes of different feeding groups.

Author

  • Natalia Ladygina
  • Tomas Johansson
  • Björn Canbäck
  • Anders Tunlid
  • Katarina Hedlund

Summary, in English

Abstract The bacterial diversity associated with soil nematodes and its relationship with their feeding habits are as yet poorly understood. In the present study the diversity and abundance of bacteria from nematodes and their surrounding soil were analysed and compared. The nematodes were collected from a grassland soil and sorted into bacterial, fungal, plant, predatory and omnivore feeding groups and assigned to taxonomic groups. Total DNA was extracted from the nematodes and partial bacterial 16S rRNA genes were PCR amplified, cloned and sequenced. The abundance and composition of bacterial taxa differed between and within feeding groups. The lowest bacterial diversity was found in the predatory nematodes Prionchulus sp., whereas the highest bacterial diversity was associated with the bacterial-feeding nematode Acrobeles sp. The soil had a more diverse bacterial community than the communities found in the nematode groups. The 16S rRNA gene sequences of bacteria associated with nematodes did not overlap with those detected in soil as determined using the cloning screening approach. However, bacterial sequences identified from nematodes could be detected in the soil with targeted PCR. Our data suggest that the nematodes do not feed on the most abundant bacteria present in soil. Furthermore, several nematodes contained suspected bacterial symbionts and parasites.

Department/s

  • Department of Biology
  • Biodiversity
  • MEMEG
  • Soil Ecology
  • Microbial Ecology

Publishing year

2009

Language

English

Pages

53-61

Publication/Series

FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Volume

69

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Topic

  • Biological Sciences
  • Ecology

Status

Published

Research group

  • Soil Ecology
  • Microbial Ecology

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1574-6941