ReviewThe ISME journal2023
Transitivity and intransitivity in soil bacterial networks.
Review in The ISME journal, 2023. 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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11 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Evolution of One Species Increases Resistance to Invasion in a Simple Synthetic Community.Microbial ecology · 2025Article
- Multispecies Coexistence Emerges From Pairwise Exclusions in Communities With Competitive Hierarchy.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- Influence of Cover Crop Root Functional Traits on Sweet Potato Yield and Soil Microbial Communities.Microorganisms · 2025Article
- Endofungal bacteria as hidden facilitators of biotic interactions.The ISME journal · 2025Review
- Bacillus subtilis Intraspecies Interactions Shape Probiotic Activity Against Salmonella Typhimurium.Microbial biotechnology · 2024Article
- Exploring interspecific interaction variability in microbiota: A review.Engineering microbiology · 2024Review
- Metabolome Shift inPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Higher-order interactions and emergent properties of microbial communities: The power of synthetic ecology.Heliyon · 2024Review
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Competition can lead to the exclusion of bacterial taxa when there is a transitive relationship among competitors with a hierarchy of competitive success. However, competition may not prevent bacterial coexistence if competitors form intransitive loops, in which none is able to outcompete all the rest. Both transitive and intransitive competition have been demonstrated in bacterial model systems. However, in natural soil microbial assemblages competition is typically understood as a dominance relationship leading to the exclusion of weak competitors. Here, we argue that transitive and intransitive interactions concurrently determine the structure of soil microbial communities. We explain why pairwise interactions cannot depict competition correctly in complex communities, and propose an alternative through the detection of strongly connected components (SCCs) in microbial networks. We finally analyse the existence of SCCs in soil bacterial communities in two Mediterranean ecosystems, for illustrative purposes only (rather than with the aim of providing a methodological tool) due to current limitations, and discuss future avenues to experimentally test the existence of SCCs in nature.
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