Inhibitory interaction networks among coevolved Streptomyces populations from prairie soils.

ABSTRACT: Soil microbes live within highly complex communities, where community composition, function, and evolution are the product of diverse interactions among community members. Analysis of the complex networks of interactions within communities has the potential to shed light on community stability, functioning, and evolution. However, we have little understanding of the variation in interaction networks among coevolved soil populations. We evaluated networks of antibiotic inhibitory interactions among sympatric Streptomyces communities from prairie soil. Inhibition networks differed significantly in key network characteristics from expectations under null models, largely reflecting variation among Streptomyces in the number of sympatric populations that they inhibited. Moreover, networks of in

SUBMITTER: Schlatter DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6822729 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature