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ArticleEcology letters2025

Differential Assembly of Core and Non-Core Host-Microbe Network Structures Along a Land-Use Change Gradient.

Matan Markfeld, Georgia Titcomb, Toky Maheriniaina Randriamoria, Garima Sehgal, Nuzha Baksh, Ashley Kerrigan, Voahangy Soarimalala, Charles L Nunn, Shai Pilosof

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Article in Ecology letters, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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9 authors.

Matan MarkfeldDepartment of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7792-0812
Georgia TitcombDepartment of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2206-1125
Toky Maheriniaina RandriamoriaAssociation Vahatra, Antananarivo, Madagascar.
Garima SehgalDepartment of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
Nuzha BakshDepartment of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
Ashley KerriganDepartment of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
Voahangy SoarimalalaAssociation Vahatra, Antananarivo, Madagascar.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2455-2956
Charles L NunnDepartment of Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9330-2873
Shai PilosofDepartment of Life Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0430-5568

Funding

Duke Lemur CenterDuke University Provost's Collaboratory AwardHuman Frontier Science Program RGY0064/2022Israel Science Foundation 1281/20National Science Foundation 2308460NIH-NSF-NIFA Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases program R01-TW011493United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation 2022721
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Microbial communities are fundamental to host health, yet their assembly dynamics under environmental change remain poorly understood. We analysed individual-level host-microbe networks in the non-native wild black rats (Rattus rattus) across a land-use gradient in Madagascar. By applying a moving prevalence threshold, we distinguished between core and non-core microbes and compared the assembly drivers shaping their network structures. Non-core microbes formed fragmented, modular networks shaped mainly by heterogeneous selection, reflecting environmental filtering. In contrast, core microbes exhibited stable, less modular networks driven primarily by stochastic ecological drift. These distinct assembly processes persisted across thresholds, highlighting fundamental differences in microbial structuring. Land-use change significantly influenced the modular structure of non-core microbes but had minimal effects on core microbes, demonstrating the differential sensitivity of microbial groups to environmental variation. This study advances our understanding of host-microbe interactions and provides a framework for assessing microbiome assembly under anthropogenic change.

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Host Microbial InteractionsMicrobiotaAnimalsMadagascarRatscommunity assemblyhost‐microbe networkland‐use changemadagascarmicrobial ecologymicrobiomemodularityrat

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PMID41236361
PMCPMC12617391

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