ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2015
Microbiomes: unifying animal and plant systems through the lens of community ecology theory.
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- Deciphering Molecular Mechanisms and Diversity of Plant Holobiont Bacteria: Microhabitats, Community Ecology, and Nutrient Acquisition.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Characterization of the Blood Bacterial Microbiota in Lowland Tapirs (Microorganisms · 2024Article
- Dynamics of Gut Bacteria Across Different Zooplankton Genera in the Baltic Sea.Microbial ecology · 2024Article
- Leaf age structures phyllosphere microbial communities in the field and greenhouse.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Cross-species gut microbiota transplantation predictably affects host heat tolerance.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
- Characterization of the preweaned Holstein calf fecal microbiota prior to, during, and following resolution of uncomplicated gastrointestinal disease.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Integrated analysis reveals important differences in the gut and oropharyngeal microbiota between children with mild and severe hand, foot, and mouth disease.Emerging microbes & infections · 2023Article
- Artificial Cultivation Changes Foliar Endophytic Fungal Community of the Ornamental PlantMicroorganisms · 2023Article
- Local environment drives rapid shifts in composition and phylogenetic clustering of seagrass microbiomes.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Foliar endophyte diversity in Eastern Asian-Eastern North American disjunct tree species - influences of host identity, environment, phylogeny, and geographic isolation.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- Epigenetic effects of short-chain fatty acids from the large intestine on host cells.microLife · 2023Review
- Arbuscular mycorrhizal root colonization depends on the spatial distribution of the host plants.Mycorrhiza · 2022Article
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Abstract
The field of microbiome research is arguably one of the fastest growing in biology. Bacteria feature prominently in studies on animal health, but fungi appear to be the more prominent functional symbionts for plants. Despite the similarities in the ecological organization and evolutionary importance of animal-bacterial and plant-fungal microbiomes, there is a general failure across disciplines to integrate the advances made in each system. Researchers studying bacterial symbionts in animals benefit from greater access to efficient sequencing pipelines and taxonomic reference databases, perhaps due to high medical and veterinary interest. However, researchers studying plant-fungal symbionts benefit from the relative tractability of fungi under laboratory conditions and ease of cultivation. Thus each system has strengths to offer, but both suffer from the lack of a common conceptual framework. We argue that community ecology best illuminates complex species interactions across space and time. In this synthesis we compare and contrast the animal-bacterial and plant-fungal microbiomes using six core theories in community ecology (i.e., succession, community assembly, metacommunities, multi-trophic interactions, disturbance, restoration). The examples and questions raised are meant to spark discussion amongst biologists and lead to the integration of these two systems, as well as more informative, manipulatory experiments on microbiomes research.
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