ArticleThe ISME journal2022
Microbial invasion of a toxic medium is facilitated by a resident community but inhibited as the community co-evolves.
Article in The ISME journal, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- Cross-feeding enables robust coexistence between four bacterial species.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- An experimental outlook on investigating temporal-scale dynamics of microbial communities.ISME communications · 2026Article
- Evolution of One Species Increases Resistance to Invasion in a Simple Synthetic Community.Microbial ecology · 2025Article
- Eco-evolutionary dynamics between multiple competitors reduce phytoplankton coexistence but have limited impacts on community productivity.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Biotic resistance predictably shifts microbial invasion regimes.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Enhanced phoxim biodegradation by immobilizingFrontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- The evolution of reduced facilitation in a four-species bacterial community.Evolution letters · 2024Article
- The strength of interspecies interaction in a microbial community determines its susceptibility to invasion.PLoS biology · 2024Article
- Convergence effect during spatiotemporal succession of lacustrine plastisphere: loss of priority effects and turnover of microbial species.ISME communications · 2024Article
- Transitivity and intransitivity in soil bacterial networks.The ISME journal · 2023Review
- Within-host adaptation alters priority effects within the tomato phyllosphere microbiome.Nature ecology & evolution · 2023Article
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Abstract
Predicting whether microbial invaders will colonize an environment is critical for managing natural and engineered ecosystems, and controlling infectious disease. Invaders often face competition by resident microbes. But how invasions play out in communities dominated by facilitative interactions is less clear. We previously showed that growth medium toxicity can promote facilitation between four bacterial species, as species that cannot grow alone rely on others to survive. Following the same logic, here we allowed other bacterial species to invade the four-species community and found that invaders could more easily colonize a toxic medium when the community was present. In a more benign environment instead, invasive species that could survive alone colonized more successfully when the residents were absent. Next, we asked whether early colonists could exclude future ones through a priority effect, by inoculating the invaders into the resident community only after its members had co-evolved for 44 weeks. Compared to the ancestral community, the co-evolved resident community was more competitive toward invaders and less affected by them. Our experiments show how communities may assemble by facilitating one another in harsh, sterile environments, but that arriving after community members have co-evolved can limit invasion success.
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