Mechanisms of bacterial and fungal community assembly in leaf miners during transition from natural to laboratory environments.

ABSTRACT: Environmental heterogeneity partly drives microbial succession in arthropods, while the microbial assembly mechanisms during environmental changes remain largely unknown. Here, we explored the temporal dynamics and assembly mechanisms within both bacterial and fungal communities in Liriomyza huidobrensis (Blanchard) during the transition from field to laboratory conditions. We observed a decrease in bacterial diversity and complexity of bacterial-fungal co-occurrence networks in leaf miners transitioning from wild to captive environments. Both neutral and null models revealed that stochastic processes, particularly drift (contributing over 70%), play a crucial role in governing bacterial and fungal community assembly. The relative contribution of ecological processes such as dispersal, dri

SUBMITTER: Zhu YX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11291455 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature