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ReviewBiology2026

Stress-Driven Accelerated Evolution and Ecological Network Reconfiguration in Extremophilic Microbial Communities.

Han Zhu, Liang Zhang, Zhao Hao, Enyong Chen, Yanhong Wang, Huaiming Jin, Yonghong Zhou

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Review in Biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Han ZhuKey Laboratory of Biodiversity and Environment on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Ministry of Education, Xizang University, Lhasa 850000, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5924-3187
Liang ZhangKey Laboratory of Biodiversity and Environment on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Ministry of Education, Xizang University, Lhasa 850000, China.
Zhao HaoKey Laboratory of Biodiversity and Environment on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Ministry of Education, Xizang University, Lhasa 850000, China.
Enyong ChenKey Laboratory of Biodiversity and Environment on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Ministry of Education, Xizang University, Lhasa 850000, China.
Yanhong WangKey Laboratory of Biodiversity and Environment on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Ministry of Education, Xizang University, Lhasa 850000, China.
Huaiming JinKey Laboratory of Biodiversity and Environment on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Ministry of Education, Xizang University, Lhasa 850000, China.ORCID 0009-0004-2373-7053
Yonghong ZhouKey Laboratory of Biodiversity and Environment on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Ministry of Education, Xizang University, Lhasa 850000, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2663-1885

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Persistently high levels of abiotic stress define extreme environments. Even for adapted extremophiles, we argue this stress remains a continuous physiological challenge, necessitating energetically costly homeostasis. Crucially, this persistent pressure drives a self-reinforcing feedback loop across biological scales: it accelerates genomic evolution and concurrently reshapes ecological network architecture. Genomic innovations provide new traits for network reconfiguration, while the restructured network acts as a selective filter guiding subsequent evolution. This loop underpins extreme ecosystem resilience-the capacity for stress-induced adaptive restructuring. We synthesize mechanisms of this stress-adaptation interplay, propose testable hypotheses and outline experimental evolution approaches to validate this predictive framework for microbial responses to global change.

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ecological networksextreme environmentsextremophileshorizontal gene transferstress-driven evolution

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PMID42274492
PMCPMC13255890

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