Hunters or farmers? Microbiome characteristics help elucidate the diet composition in an aquatic carnivorous plant

Hunters or farmers? Microbiome characteristics help elucidate the diet composition in an aquatic carnivorous plant

Abstract Background Utricularia are rootless aquatic carnivorous plants which have recently attracted the attention of researchers due to the peculiarities of their miniaturized genomes. Here, we focus on a novel aspect of Utricularia ecophysiology—the interactions with and within the complex commun...

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Main Authors: Dagmara Sirová, Jiří Bárta, Karel Šimek, Thomas Posch, Jiří Pech, James Stone, Jakub Borovec, Lubomír Adamec, Jaroslav Vrba
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-12-01
Series:Microbiome
Subjects:
Algae
Bacteria
Ciliate bacterivory
Digestive mutualism
Fungi
Herbivory
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40168-018-0600-7

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