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DOI 10.1128/AEM.01598-13
Title (Primary) Assimilation of cellulose-derived carbon by microeukaryotes in oxic and anoxic slurries of an aerated soil
Author Chatzinotas, A.; Schellenberger, S.; Glaser, K.; Kolb, S.
Source Titel Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Year 2013
Department UMB; BIOENERGIE
Volume 79
Issue 18
Page From 5777
Page To 5781
Language englisch
UFZ wide themes RU1;
Abstract

Soil microeukaryotes may trophically benefit from plant biopolymers. However, carbon transfer from cellulose into soil microeukaryotes has not been demonstrated so far. Microeukaryotes assimilating cellulose-derived carbon in oxic and anoxic soil slurries were therefore examined by rRNA-based stable-isotope probing. Bacteriovorous flagellates and ciliates and, likely, mixotrophic algae and saprotrophic fungi incorporated carbon from supplemental [U-13C]cellulose under oxic conditions. A previous study using the same soil suggested that cellulolytic Bacteria assimilated 13C of supplemental cellulose. Thus, it can be assumed that ciliates, cercozoa, and chrysophytes assimilated carbon by grazing upon and utilizing metabolic products of Bacteria that hydrolyzed cellulose in the soil slurries.

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Chatzinotas, A., Schellenberger, S., Glaser, K., Kolb, S. (2013):
Assimilation of cellulose-derived carbon by microeukaryotes in oxic and anoxic slurries of an aerated soil
Appl. Environ. Microb. 79 (18), 5777 - 5781 10.1128/AEM.01598-13