Influence of metabolic guilds on a temporal scale in an experimental fermented food derived microbial community.

ABSTRACT: The influence of community diversity, which can be measured at the level of metabolic guilds, on community function is a central question in ecology. Particularly, the long-term temporal dynamic between a community's function and its diversity remains unclear. We investigated the influence of metabolic guild diversity on associated community function by propagating natural microbial communities from a traditionally fermented milk beverage diluted to various levels. Specifically, we assessed the influence of less abundant microbial types, such as yeast, on community functionality and bacterial community compositions over repeated propagation cycles amounting to ∼100 generations. The starting richness of metabolic guilds had a repeatable effect on bacterial community compositions, metabolic

SUBMITTER: Leale A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10550249 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature