Conservation of Species- and Trait-Based Modeling Network Interactions in Extremely Acidic Microbial Community Assembly.

ABSTRACT: Understanding microbial interactions is essential to decipher the mechanisms of community assembly and their effects on ecosystem functioning, however, the conservation of species- and trait-based network interactions along environmental gradient remains largely unknown. Here, by using the network-based analyses with three paralleled data sets derived from 16S rRNA gene pyrosequencing, functional microarray, and predicted metagenome, we test our hypothesis that the network interactions of traits are more conserved than those of taxonomic measures, with significantly lower variation of network characteristics along the environmental gradient in acid mine drainage. The results showed that although the overall network characteristics remained similar, the structural variation was significantl

SUBMITTER: Kuang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5554326 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature