Ecological dynamics imposes fundamental challenges in community-based microbial source tracking.

ABSTRACT: Quantifying the contributions of possible environmental sources ("sources") to a specific microbial community ("sink") is a classical problem in microbiology known as microbial source tracking (MST). Solving the MST problem will not only help us understand how microbial communities were formed, but also have far-reaching applications in pollution control, public health, and forensics. MST methods generally fall into two categories: target-based methods (focusing on the detection of source-specific indicator species or chemicals); and community-based methods (using community structure to measure similarity between sink samples and potential source environments). As next-generation sequencing becomes a standard community-assessment method in microbiology, numerous community-based computation

SUBMITTER: Wang XW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10989786 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature