ArticleMicrobes and environments2024
Stable States of a Microbial Community Are Formed by Dynamic Metabolic Networks with Members Functioning to Achieve Both Robustness and Plasticity.
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Abstract
A more detailed understanding of the mechanisms underlying the formation of microbial communities is essential for the efficient management of microbial ecosystems. The stable states of microbial communities are commonly perceived as static and, thus, have not been extensively examined. The present study investigated stabilizing mechanisms, minority functions, and the reliability of quantitative ana-lyses, emphasizing a metabolic network perspective. A bacterial community, formed by batch transferred cultures supplied with phenol as the sole carbon and energy source and paddy soil as the inoculum, was analyzed using a principal coordinate ana-lysis (PCoA), mathematical models, and quantitative parameters defined as growth activity, community-changing activity, community-forming activity, vulnerable force, and resilience force depending on changes in the abundance of operational taxonomic units (OTUs) using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequences. PCoA showed succession states until the 3
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