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View article: Lake Ecosystem Robustness and Resilience Inferred from a Climate-Stressed Protistan Plankton Network
Lake Ecosystem Robustness and Resilience Inferred from a Climate-Stressed Protistan Plankton Network Open
Network analyses of biological communities allow for identifying potential consequences of climate change on the resilience of ecosystems and their robustness to resist stressors. Using DNA metabarcoding datasets from a three-year-sampling…
View article: Aquatic food webs in deep temperate lakes: Key species establish through their autecological versatility
Aquatic food webs in deep temperate lakes: Key species establish through their autecological versatility Open
Microbial planktonic communities are the basis of food webs in aquatic ecosystems since they contribute substantially to primary production and nutrient recycling. Network analyses of DNA metabarcoding data sets emerged as a powerful tool …
View article: Micractinium tetrahymenae (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta), a New Endosymbiont Isolated from Ciliates
Micractinium tetrahymenae (Trebouxiophyceae, Chlorophyta), a New Endosymbiont Isolated from Ciliates Open
Endosymbiosis between coccoid green algae and ciliates are widely distributed and occur in various phylogenetic lineages among the Ciliophora. Most mixotrophic ciliates live in symbiosis with different species and genera of the so-called C…
View article: Seasonality of Planktonic Freshwater Ciliates: Are Analyses Based on V9 Regions of the 18S rRNA Gene Correlated With Morphospecies Counts?
Seasonality of Planktonic Freshwater Ciliates: Are Analyses Based on V9 Regions of the 18S rRNA Gene Correlated With Morphospecies Counts? Open
Ciliates represent central nodes in freshwater planktonic food webs, and many species show pronounced seasonality, with short-lived maxima of a few dominant taxa while many being rare or ephemeral. These observations are primarily based on…
View article: Ecological Traits of the Algae‐Bearing<i>Tetrahymena utriculariae</i>(Ciliophora) from Traps of the Aquatic Carnivorous Plant<i>Utricularia reflexa</i>
Ecological Traits of the Algae‐Bearing<i>Tetrahymena utriculariae</i>(Ciliophora) from Traps of the Aquatic Carnivorous Plant<i>Utricularia reflexa</i> Open
Trap fluid of aquatic carnivorous plants of the genus Utricularia hosts specific microbiomes consisting of commensal pro‐ and eukaryotes of largely unknown ecology. We examined the characteristics and dynamics of bacteria and the three dom…
View article: Network of Interactions Between Ciliates and Phytoplankton During Spring
Network of Interactions Between Ciliates and Phytoplankton During Spring Open
The annually recurrent spring phytoplankton blooms in freshwater lakes initiate pronounced successions of planktonic ciliate species. Although there is considerable knowledge on the taxonomic diversity of these ciliates, their species-spec…