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Microscopic fungi as food of cave invertebrate animals - a laboratory food preference experiment
Nováková, Alena ; Luptáčik, P. ; Kováč, L. ; Lukešová, Alena ; Šustr, Vladimír
The aim was to improve the methodology of the multi-choice food preference tests as a tool for investigation of feeding preference of cave invertebrates. Fungi and algae isolated from cave sediments of the Domica Cave system (NP Slovak Karst) were offered in cafeteria tests as a food to springtail .i.Folsomia candida./i., mites .i.Pantelozetes cavatica, Scheloribates pallidulus./i., and isopod .i.Mesoniscus graniger. M. graniger./i. preferred some species of algae, all offered fungi were rejected. Mainly algae and .i.Mucor./i. spp. from microscopic fungi are preferred by .i.S. pallidulus./i.. Preference of .i.Mucor./i. spp. was observed by cave mite .i.P. cavatica./i. and cave population of .i.F. candida./i. too. All cave animals showed low preference for offered food and have tendency to stay rather on clay cave sediment then on the food.
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Potravní zdroje bezobratlých v Ardovské jeskyni a v jeskyni Domica - předběžné výsledky
Nováková, Alena ; Elhottová, Dana ; Krištůfek, Václav ; Lukešová, Alena ; Hill, P. ; Kováč, L. ; Mock, A. ; Luptáčik, P.
The chemistry (organic matter content and pH) of different substrates from the Ardovská and Domica Caves in the Slovak Karst National Park (Slovakia) and the composition of their microbial communities were studied. Differences in organic matter content and microbial communities were found between the substrates from the Domica and Ardovská Caves. A broad spectrum of photoautotrophic microorganisms (algae and cyanobacteria) was found in different cave microhabitats (cave sediment, rotten wood, earthworms casts and isopods faeces), but no algae were detected in the fresh bat droppings and in the intestinal tract of the isopod .i.M. graniger./i.. Microfungi and bacterial colonies play the primary role in transforming bat guano into a food source for saprophagous and microphytophagous invertebrates.
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Ovlivňuje obsah buněčných mastných kyselin a enzymů jeskynních bakterií potravní preferenci .i.Enchytraeus crypticus./i. (Oligochaeta, Enchytraeidae)?
Krištůfek, Václav ; Elhottová, Dana ; Šustr, Vladimír ; Lasák, R. ; Kováč, L. ; Mock, A. ; Luptáčik, P.
Cellular fatty acid screening (MIDI System) of 93 bacterial strains isolated from the Domica Cave in the Slovak Karst region ( Slovakia) showed that three bacterial strains (.i.Chryseobacterium./i. sp., .i.Enterobacter amnigenus, Rhodococcus./i. sp.) produce polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) 18:3w6 and 20:4w6. These species (along with a non PUFA producer, .i.Rhizobium./i. sp.) were isolated from the gut content or body surface of .i.Mesoniscus graniger./i. (Frivaldsky, 1865) (Crustacea: Isopoda). Bacterial strains were tested for activity of nine saccharolytic enzymes. .i.Chryseobacterium./i. sp. showed amylase, maltase and cellobiase activity, other bacterial species only had amylase activity. As PUFA and enzymes may be essential for animal growth and development, colonies of the four strains were grown for further use in laboratory food selection and reproduction experiments with .i.E. crypticus./i..
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