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2015
First detection of prey DNA in Hygrobates fluviatilis (Hydrachnidia, Acari): a new approach for determining predator-prey relationships in water mites
First detection of prey DNA in Hygrobates fluviatilis (Hydrachnidia, Acari): a new approach for determining predator-prey relationships in water mites
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Herausgeber
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Experimental and Applied Acarology
67 (2015), Heft 3
67 (2015), Heft 3
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First detection of prey DNA in Hygrobates fluviatilis (Hydrachnidia, Acari): a new approach for determining predator-prey relationships in water mites, 2015. Experimental and Applied Acarology [online]. Bd. 67 (2015), Heft 3. DOI 10.60810/openumwelt-327. Verfügbar unter: https://openumwelt.de/handle/123456789/7697
Zusammenfassung englisch
Up to now our knowledge of water mite diet has been fragmentary. It is derived from observations in the field and laboratory or from a few selective laboratory experiments on food choice. In the present study, we were able to detect chironomid DNA in water mite bodies for the first time using molecular methods. Prey DNA was detected in virtually all Hygrobates fluviatilis (Hygrobatidae) that were fed on chironomid larvae after a starvation period of up to approximately 1 week. From the shortest interval (1 h after feeding) to the longest period after feeding (50 h) the relative amount of detected prey DNA was significantly reduced. In addition, there was a relationship between the relative amount of prey DNA and the assumed amount of the ingested prey (classified in categories of the dead prey which reflect the increasing ingestion of the mites and the decreasing body content of the prey individuals). The results of our study indicate that similar molecular analyses will be a powerful tool for diet investigations of mites from the field on various taxonomic resolutions of prey taxa. Moreover, the results of food selection experiments from the laboratory could be compared to evidence of predation by individuals from the field. For many mite taxa, especially ones which turned out to be difficult to breed in the laboratory (e.g. by unknown diet), the new methods might enable us to gain the first ever data on diet and thus may help us to consider the role of water mites in food webs more adequately in the future.Quelle: http://link.springer.com