The effectiveness of artificial microbial community selection: a conceptual framework and a meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT: The potential for artificial selection at the community level to improve ecosystem functions has received much attention in applied microbiology. However, we do not yet understand what conditions in general allow for successful artificial community selection. Here we propose six hypotheses about factors that determine the effectiveness of artificial microbial community selection, based on previous studies in this field and those on multilevel selection. In particular, we emphasize selection strategies that increase the variance among communities. We then report a meta-analysis of published artificial microbial community selection experiments. The reported responses to community selection were highly variable among experiments; and the overall effect size was not significantly different fro

SUBMITTER: Yu SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10570731 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature