Variation in the Microbiota Associated with Daphnia magna Across Genotypes, Populations, and Temperature

Microbial Ecology
Jonas Frankel-BrickerSarah Schaack

Abstract

Studies of how the microbiome varies among individuals, populations, and abiotic conditions are critical for understanding this key component of an organism's biology and ecology. In the case of Daphnia, aquatic microcrustaceans widely used in population/community ecology and environmental science studies, understanding factors that influence microbiome shifts among individuals is useful for both basic and applied research contexts. In this study, we assess differences in the microbiome among genotypes of D. magna collected from three regions along a large latitudinal gradient (Finland, Germany, and Israel). After being reared in the lab for many years, we sought to characterize any differences in genotype- or population-specific microbial communities, and to assess whether the microbiota varied among temperatures. Our study is similar to a recent comparison of the microbial communities among D. magna genotypes raised in different temperatures published by Sullam et al. (Microb Ecol 76(2):506-517, 2017), and as such represents one of the first examples of a reproducible result in microbiome research. Like the previous study, we find evidence for a strong effect of temperature on the microbiome of D. magna, although across a muc...Continue Reading

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Nov 24, 2019·Applied and Environmental Microbiology·Jonas Frankel-BrickerMerlin M White
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Dec 6, 2021·The Science of the Total Environment·Siddiq AkbarZhou Yang

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BETA
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DESeq2
microbiomeseq
PERMANOVA
phangorn
vegan
DADA2
R
phyloseq

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