Plastic phenotypic resistance to predation by Bdellovibrio and like organisms in bacterial prey.

Abstract excerpt

Predation at the lowest trophic level, i.e. between bacteria, is poorly understood, hindering efforts to assess its impact on the structure of bacterial communities. The interaction of Bdellovibrio and Bacteriovorax (Bdellovibrio and like organisms, BLOs), a group of obligate, ubiquitous predatory bacteria, with their Gram-negative bacterial prey results in the multiplication of the predator and in the lysis, but...

Topics

• Adaptation, Physiological
• Bacteriolysis
• Bdellovibrio
• Colony Count, Microbial
• Erwinia
• Phenotype