ArticleiScience2023
Algae drive convergent bacterial community assembly at low dilution frequency.
Article in iScience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Diverse Microbial Communities Assemble on Both Recalcitrant and Labile Carbon Sources.Environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- Microbial functional guilds respond cohesively to rapidly fluctuating environments.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Environmental modulators of algae-bacteria interactions at scale.Cell systems · 2024Article
- Statistical prediction of microbial metabolic traits from genomes.PLoS computational biology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Microbial community assembly is a complex dynamical process that determines community structure and function. The interdependence of inter-species interactions and nutrient availability presents a challenge for understanding community assembly. We sought to understand how external nutrient supply rate modulated interactions to affect the assembly process. A statistical decomposition of taxonomic structures of bacterial communities assembled with and without algae and at varying dilution frequencies allowed the separation of the effects of biotic (presence of algae) and abiotic (dilution frequency) factors on community assembly. For infrequent dilutions, the algae strongly impact community assembly, driving initially diverse bacterial consortia to converge to a common structure. Analyzing sequencing data revealed that this convergence is largely mediated by a decline in the relative abundance of specific taxa in the presence of algae. This study shows that complex phototroph-heterotroph communities can be powerful model systems for understanding assembly processes relevant to the global ecosystem functioning.
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