Assessing Niche Separation among Coexisting Limnohabitans Strains through Interactions with a Competitor, Viruses, and a Bacterivore

• Published in: Applied and Environmental Microbiology Vol. 76; no. 5; pp. 1406 - 1416
• Main Authors: Šimek, Karel, Kasalický, Vojtěch, Horňák, Karel, Hahn, Martin W, Weinbauer, Markus G
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC American Society for Microbiology 01.03.2010; American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
• Subjects: Bacteria; Bacteriophages - growth & development; Biological and medical sciences; biomass; Coculture Techniques; Comamonadaceae - genetics; Comamonadaceae - growth & development; Comamonadaceae - virology; Cytophagaceae - growth & development; Earth Sciences; Ecosystem; Eukaryota - growth & development; Flectobacillus; Fresh Water - microbiology; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Gene expression; Grazing; Microbial Ecology; Microbiology; Mortality; niches; nucleotide sequences; Oceanography; population dynamics; predators; Ribonucleic acid; ribosomal RNA; RNA; Sciences of the Universe; strain differences; Viruses; Virus; Interaction; Separation

We investigated potential niche separation in two closely related (99.1% 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity) syntopic bacterial strains affiliated with the R-BT065 cluster, which represents a subgroup of the genus LIMNOHABITANS: The two strains, designated B4 and D5, were isolated concurrently from a...