Université de Fribourg

The effect of top‐predator presence and phenotype on aquatic microbial communities

Sullam, Karen E. ; Matthews, Blake ; Aebischer, Thierry ; Seehausen, Ole ; Bürgmann, Helmut

In: Ecology and Evolution, 2017, vol. 7, no. 5, p. 1572–1582

The presence of predators can impact a variety of organisms within the ecosystem, including microorganisms. Because the effects of fish predators and their phenotypic differences on microbial communities have not received much attention, we tested how the presence/absence, genotype, and plasticity of the predatory three-spine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) influence aquatic microbes in...