Phagotrophic Protists and Their Associates: Evidence for Preferential Grazing in an Abiotically Driven Soil Ecosystem
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Methods
2.1. Shotgun Metagenome Sequencing and rDNA Identification
2.2. Constructing Association Networks
2.3. Comparing the Influence of Abiotic and Biotic Factors on Protist Distribution
2.4. Inferring Biological Significance from Network Associations
3. Results
3.1. Biotic vs. Abiotic Drivers
3.2. Trends in Network Analyses
3.3. Associations with Eukaryotes
3.4. Associations with Bacteria
4. Discussion
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Thompson, A.R.; Roth-Monzón, A.J.; Aanderud, Z.T.; Adams, B.J. Phagotrophic Protists and Their Associates: Evidence for Preferential Grazing in an Abiotically Driven Soil Ecosystem. Microorganisms 2021, 9, 1555. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9081555
Thompson AR, Roth-Monzón AJ, Aanderud ZT, Adams BJ. Phagotrophic Protists and Their Associates: Evidence for Preferential Grazing in an Abiotically Driven Soil Ecosystem. Microorganisms. 2021; 9(8):1555. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9081555
Chicago/Turabian StyleThompson, Andrew R., Andrea J. Roth-Monzón, Zachary T. Aanderud, and Byron J. Adams. 2021. "Phagotrophic Protists and Their Associates: Evidence for Preferential Grazing in an Abiotically Driven Soil Ecosystem" Microorganisms 9, no. 8: 1555. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9081555