EFFECT OF PASSAGE THROUGH THE INTESTINAL-TRACT OF DETRITIVORE EARTHWORMS (LUMBRICUS SPP) ON THE NUMBER OF SELECTED GRAM-NEGATIVE AND TOTAL BACTERIA

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作者
PEDERSEN, JC
HENDRIKSEN, NB
机构
[1] Department of Marine Ecology and Microbiology, National Environmental Research Institute, Roskilde, DK-4000
关键词
EARTHWORMS; LUMBRICUS SPP; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; ENTEROBACTER-CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA-COLI; AEROMONAS-HYDROPHILA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;
D O I
10.1007/BF00361413
中图分类号
S15 [土壤学];
学科分类号
0903 ; 090301 ;
摘要
Laboratory experiments were carried out to investigate the fate of bacteria during and after passage through the intestinal tract of detritivore earthworms. Earthworms (Lumbricus spp.) were fed with cattle dung inoculated 7 days previously with one of five different Gram-negative bacteria. Bacterial concentrations were determined 2 days later in dung and soil, and in gut material from different parts of the earthworm intestinal tract. A high percentage (28-82%) of the total bacteria (epifluorescence direct counts) in the earthworm gut content was culturable. The concentration of total heterotrophic aerobic bacteria did not vary significantly among the five different bacterial additions and the non-inoculated control. In earthworm casts the number of total heterotrophs per gram dry matter (2.1 x 10(9)) was higher than in soil (1.7 x 10(8)), but lower than in the dung (1.5 x 10(10)). The test-bacteria, however, showed different survival patterns along the earthworm intestinal tract. The concentrations of Escherichia coli BJ18 and Pseudomonas putida MM1 and MM11 in earthworm casts were lower than in the ingested dung, while concentrations of Enterobacter cloacae A107 and Aeromonas hydrophila DMU115 in dung and casts were similar. Ent. cloacae, and to a minor extent E. coli, were reduced in numbers by several orders of magnitude in the pharynx and/or crop. In the hind gut, however, the concentration of Ent. cloacae had increased to the same level as in the ingested dung, while the concentration of E coli remained low. Our observations indicate that the bacterial flora of ingested food materials changes qualitatively and quantitatively during gut transit.
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