期刊
MICROSCOPY AND MICROANALYSIS
卷 19, 期 6, 页码 1490-1501出版社
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S1431927613013482
关键词
bacteria; bioenergy; ecology; focused ion beam; SIMS; protists; scanning electron microscopy; stable isotopes; termites; transmission electron microscopy
资金
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Laboratory Directed Research and Development program [011-LW-039]
- Department of Energy OBER LLNL Biofuels Scientific Focus Area (SFA) program [SCW1039]
- US Department of Energy [DE-AC52-07NA27344]
The hindguts of lower termites harbor highly diverse, endemic communities of symbiotic protists, bacteria, and archaea essential to the termite's ability to digest wood. Despite over a century of experimental studies, ecological roles of many of these microbes are unknown, partly because almost none can be cultivated. Many of the protists associate with bacterial symbionts, but hypotheses for their respective roles in nutrient exchange are based on genomes of only two such bacteria. To show how the ecological roles of protists and nutrient transfer with symbiotic bacteria can be elucidated by direct imaging, we combined stable isotope labeling (C-13-cellulose) of live termites with analysis of fixed hindgut microbes using correlated scanning electron microscopy, focused ion beam-scanning electron microscopy (FIB-SEM), transmission electron microscopy, and high resolution imaging mass spectrometry (NanoSIMS). We developed methods to prepare whole labeled cells on solid substrates, whole labeled cells milled with a FIB- SEM instrument to reveal cell interiors, and ultramicrotome sections of labeled cells for NanoSIMS imaging of C-13 enrichment in protists and associated bacteria. Our results show these methods have the potential to provide direct evidence for nutrient flow and suggest the oxymonad protist Oxymonas dimorpha phagocytoses and enzymatically degrades ingested wood fragments, and may transfer carbon derived from this to its surface bacterial symbionts.
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