Environmental Filtering Drives Microbial Community Shifts and Functional Niche Differentiation of Fungi in Waterlogged and Dried Archeological Bamboo Slips.

ABSTRACT: Changes in preservation conditions act as an important environmental filter driving shifts in microbial communities. However, the precise identities, functional traits, and ecological mechanisms of the dominant agents driving stage-specific deterioration remain insufficiently characterized. This study investigated microbial communities and dominant fungal degraders in waterlogged versus dried bamboo slips using amplicon sequencing, multivariate statistics, and microbial isolation. Results revealed compositionally distinct communities, with dried slips sharing only a small proportion of operational taxonomic units (OTUs) with waterlogged slips, while indicating the persistence of a subset of taxa across preservation states. A key discovery was the dominance of Fonsecaea minima (92% r

SUBMITTER: Zhong L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12843188 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature