000276262 001__ 276262 000276262 005__ 20210129220828.0 000276262 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.1111/1462-2920.12949 000276262 0247_ $$2ISSN$$a1462-2912 000276262 0247_ $$2ISSN$$a1462-2920 000276262 0247_ $$2WOS$$aWOS:000366139500030 000276262 0247_ $$2altmetric$$aaltmetric:4176535 000276262 0247_ $$2pmid$$apmid:26079718 000276262 037__ $$aFZJ-2015-06725 000276262 041__ $$aEnglish 000276262 082__ $$a570 000276262 1001_ $$0P:(DE-HGF)0$$aGeisen, Stefan$$b0$$eCorresponding author 000276262 245__ $$aPack hunting by a common soil amoeba on nematodes 000276262 260__ $$aOxford [u.a.]$$bBlackwell$$c2015 000276262 3367_ $$0PUB:(DE-HGF)16$$2PUB:(DE-HGF)$$aJournal Article$$bjournal$$mjournal$$s1448532905_24261 000276262 3367_ $$2DataCite$$aOutput Types/Journal article 000276262 3367_ $$00$$2EndNote$$aJournal Article 000276262 3367_ $$2BibTeX$$aARTICLE 000276262 3367_ $$2ORCID$$aJOURNAL_ARTICLE 000276262 3367_ $$2DRIVER$$aarticle 000276262 520__ $$aSoils host the most complex communities on Earth, including the most diverse and abundant eukaryotes, i.e. heterotrophic protists. Protists are generally considered as bacterivores, but evidence for negative interactions with nematodes both from laboratory and field studies exist. However, direct impacts of protists on nematodes remain unknown. We isolated the soil-borne testate amoeba Cryptodifflugia operculata and found a highly specialized and effective pack-hunting strategy to prey on bacterivorous nematodes. Enhanced reproduction in presence of prey nematodes suggests a beneficial predatory life history of these omnivorous soil amoebae. Cryptodifflugia operculata appears to selectively impact the nematode community composition as reductions of nematode numbers were species specific. Furthermore, we investigated 12 soil metatranscriptomes from five distinct locations throughout Europe for 18S ribosomal RNA transcripts of C. operculata. The presence of C. operculata transcripts in all samples, representing up to 4% of the active protist community, indicates a potential ecological importance of nematophagy performed by C. operculata in soil food webs. The unique pack-hunting strategy on nematodes that was previously unknown from protists, together with molecular evidence that these pack hunters are likely to be abundant and widespread in soils, imply a considerable importance of the hitherto neglected trophic link ‘nematophagous protists’ in soil food webs. 000276262 536__ $$0G:(DE-HGF)POF3-582$$a582 - Plant Science (POF3-582)$$cPOF3-582$$fPOF III$$x0 000276262 588__ $$aDataset connected to CrossRef 000276262 7001_ $$0P:(DE-Juel1)168182$$aRosengarten, Jamila$$b1$$ufzj 000276262 7001_ $$0P:(DE-Juel1)165733$$aKoller, Robert$$b2$$ufzj 000276262 7001_ $$0P:(DE-HGF)0$$aMulder, Christian$$b3 000276262 7001_ $$0P:(DE-HGF)0$$aUrich, Tim$$b4 000276262 7001_ $$0P:(DE-HGF)0$$aBonkowski, Michael$$b5 000276262 773__ $$0PERI:(DE-600)2020213-1$$a10.1111/1462-2920.12949$$gp. n/a - n/a$$n11$$p4538–4546$$tEnvironmental microbiology$$v17$$x1462-2912$$y2015 000276262 909CO $$ooai:juser.fz-juelich.de:276262$$pVDB 000276262 9101_ $$0I:(DE-588b)5008462-8$$6P:(DE-Juel1)168182$$aForschungszentrum Jülich GmbH$$b1$$kFZJ 000276262 9101_ $$0I:(DE-588b)5008462-8$$6P:(DE-Juel1)165733$$aForschungszentrum Jülich GmbH$$b2$$kFZJ 000276262 9131_ $$0G:(DE-HGF)POF3-582$$1G:(DE-HGF)POF3-580$$2G:(DE-HGF)POF3-500$$3G:(DE-HGF)POF3$$4G:(DE-HGF)POF$$aDE-HGF$$bKey Technologies$$lKey Technologies for the Bioeconomy$$vPlant Science$$x0 000276262 9141_ $$y2015 000276262 915__ $$0StatID:(DE-HGF)0200$$2StatID$$aDBCoverage$$bSCOPUS 000276262 915__ $$0StatID:(DE-HGF)0300$$2StatID$$aDBCoverage$$bMedline 000276262 915__ $$0StatID:(DE-HGF)0310$$2StatID$$aDBCoverage$$bNCBI Molecular Biology Database 000276262 915__ $$0StatID:(DE-HGF)0100$$2StatID$$aJCR$$bENVIRON MICROBIOL : 2014 000276262 915__ $$0StatID:(DE-HGF)0199$$2StatID$$aDBCoverage$$bThomson Reuters Master Journal List 000276262 915__ $$0StatID:(DE-HGF)0110$$2StatID$$aWoS$$bScience Citation Index 000276262 915__ $$0StatID:(DE-HGF)0150$$2StatID$$aDBCoverage$$bWeb of Science Core Collection 000276262 915__ $$0StatID:(DE-HGF)0111$$2StatID$$aWoS$$bScience Citation Index Expanded 000276262 915__ $$0StatID:(DE-HGF)1060$$2StatID$$aDBCoverage$$bCurrent Contents - Agriculture, Biology and Environmental Sciences 000276262 915__ $$0StatID:(DE-HGF)1030$$2StatID$$aDBCoverage$$bCurrent Contents - Life Sciences 000276262 915__ $$0StatID:(DE-HGF)1040$$2StatID$$aDBCoverage$$bZoological Record 000276262 915__ $$0StatID:(DE-HGF)1050$$2StatID$$aDBCoverage$$bBIOSIS Previews 000276262 915__ $$0StatID:(DE-HGF)9905$$2StatID$$aIF >= 5$$bENVIRON MICROBIOL : 2014 000276262 9201_ $$0I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-2-20101118$$kIBG-2$$lPflanzenwissenschaften$$x0 000276262 980__ $$ajournal 000276262 980__ $$aVDB 000276262 980__ $$aI:(DE-Juel1)IBG-2-20101118 000276262 980__ $$aUNRESTRICTED