ReviewEcology and evolution2020
Metacommunity theory for transmission of heritable symbionts within insect communities.
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- Dynamics of Insects and Their Facultative Defensive Endosymbiotic Bacteria: A Simulation Model.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Pinewood nematode induced changes in the assembly process of gallery microbiomes benefit its vector beetle's development.Microbiology spectrum · 2024Article
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- Insect-microbe interactions and their influence on organisms and ecosystems.Ecology and evolution · 2024Review
- Host genetics and larval host plant modulate microbiome structure and evolution underlying the intimate insect-microbe-plant interactions inEcology and evolution · 2024Article
- Impact of intraspecific variation in insect microbiomes on host phenotype and evolution.The ISME journal · 2023Review
- Microbiota acquisition and transmission iniScience · 2023Article
- Investigation of vertical and horizontal transmission of Spiroplasma in ticks under laboratory conditions.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Environments and Hosts Structure the Bacterial Microbiomes of Fungus-Gardening Ants and their Symbiotic Fungus Gardens.Microbial ecology · 2023Article
- Microbiome Structure of a WildApplied and environmental microbiology · 2023Article
- Ecological corridors homogenize plant root endospheric mycobiota.The New phytologist · 2023Article
- Geography, taxonomy, and ecological guild: Factors impacting freshwater macroinvertebrate gut microbiomes.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Ecological Processes and Human Behavior Provide a Framework for Studying the Skin Microbial Metacommunity.Microbial ecology · 2022Review
- Microhabitat Governs the Microbiota of the Pinewood Nematode and Its Vector Beetle: Implication for the Prevalence of Pine Wilt Disease.Microbiology spectrum · 2022Article
- Drivers of gut microbiome variation within and between groups of a wild Malagasy primate.Microbiome · 2022Article
- Analysis of the Gut Bacterial Community of Wild Larvae ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Reconstitution and Transmission of Gut Microbiomes and Their Genes between Generations.Microorganisms · 2021Review
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Abstract
Microbial organisms are ubiquitous in nature and often form communities closely associated with their host, referred to as the microbiome. The microbiome has strong influence on species interactions, but microbiome studies rarely take interactions between hosts into account, and network interaction studies rarely consider microbiomes. Here, we propose to use metacommunity theory as a framework to unify research on microbiomes and host communities by considering host insects and their microbes as discretely defined "communities of communities" linked by dispersal (transmission) through biotic interactions. We provide an overview of the effects of heritable symbiotic bacteria on their insect hosts and how those effects subsequently influence host interactions, thereby altering the host community. We suggest multiple scenarios for integrating the microbiome into metacommunity ecology and demonstrate ways in which to employ and parameterize models of symbiont transmission to quantitatively assess metacommunity processes in host-associated microbial systems. Successfully incorporating microbiota into community-level studies is a crucial step for understanding the importance of the microbiome to host species and their interactions.
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