| Title | Are They What They Eat? A Stable GIT Microbiome Characterized in P. resecata |
| Publication Type | Thesis |
| Year of Publication | 2020 |
| Authors | Gustafson, Tarah N. |
| Academic Department | Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Program |
| Degree | Honors Baccalaureate of Science |
| Pagination | 39 |
| Date Published | 2020 |
| University | Oregon State University |
| City | Corvallis, Or. |
| Type of Work | Bachelors Thesis (Honors) |
| Call Number | OSU Libraries: Digital Open Access |
| Keywords | diet, eelgrass = Zostera marina, Eelgrass isopod = Pentidotea resecata, Gastrointestinal, genetics, Microbes, Netarts Bay, Sea lettuce = Ulva lactuca, Sugar kelp = Laminaria saccharina, Yaquina Bay |
| Notes | “Intertidal herbivores, such as isopods, help regulate and contribute to nutrient cycling and organic carbon flow through the trophic levels in estuaries and coastal ecosystems. Though much is known about the microbiomes of macrophyte leaves that serve as the primary food source for isopods, and (to a lesser extent) the microbiomes of herbivores themselves, little has been studied about the community assembly dynamics of herbivore microbial communities” (from the Abstract). This Honors Bachelor of Science thesis describes a project to better understand the microbiomes associated with these isopods. Isopods were gathered from Netarts Bay, while the intertidal vegetation they fed on was gathered at Yaquina Bay. The isopods were fed diets limited to one plant species and then their gastrointestinal microbes were genetically sequenced to determine if the microbiomes changed due to diet. They did not, which supports work indicating that marine isopods have stable gastrointestinal tract microbiomes |
| URL | https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/honors_college_theses/47429h530 |
