Parallel ecological and evolutionary responses to selection in a natural bacterial community.

ABSTRACT: Evolution can occur over ecological timescales, suggesting a potentially important role for rapid evolution in shaping community trait distributions. However, evidence of concordant eco-evolutionary dynamics often comes from in vitro studies of highly simplified communities, and measures of ecological and evolutionary dynamics are rarely directly comparable. Here, we quantified how ecological species sorting and rapid evolution simultaneously shape community trait distributions by tracking within- and between-species changes in a key trait in a complex bacterial community. We focused on the production of siderophores; bacteria use these costly secreted metabolites to scavenge poorly soluble iron and to detoxify environments polluted with toxic nonferrous metals. We found that responses to

SUBMITTER: Hesse E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11388356 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature