Effect of pH on viability of Entodinium caudatum, Entodinium exiguum, Epidinium caudatum, and Ophryoscolex purkynjei in vitro
- 1 July 2005
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology
- Vol. 52 (4), 339-342
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1550-7408.2005.00041.x
Abstract
Cultures of Entodinium caudatum, Entodinium exiguum, Epidinium caudatum, and Ophryoscolex purkynjei were grown and transferred in poorly buffered media prepared using different concentrations of sodium bicarbonate and a nitrogen gas phase. By transferring every 12 or 24 h, culture pH was gradually decreased until the protozoa disappeared. The cultures were transferred by placing half of the culture into an equal volume of fresh medium, resulting in pH fluctuations similar to those in the rumen, resulting from fermentation, eating, and saliva production. All four species appeared to maintain their concentrations around pH 5.8, but numbers decreased as pH values fell below 5.6. The four species were similar in that they all survived above pH 5.3. These results differ from previous reports in which Entodinium species appeared to be more tolerant to low pH than all other species of rumen ciliates. No adaptation to low pH was observed in Epidinium caudatum cultures after recovery from pH 5.4 medium containing only one or two viable cells.Keywords
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