Adaptive matching between phyllosphere bacteria and their tree hosts in a neotropical forest.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The phyllosphere is an important microbial habitat, but our understanding of how plant hosts drive the composition of their associated leaf microbial communities and whether taxonomic associations between plants and phyllosphere microbes represent adaptive matching remains limited. In this study, we quantify bacterial functional diversity in the phyllosphere of 17 tree species in a diverse neotropical forest using metagenomic shotgun sequencing. We ask how hosts drive the functional composition of phyllosphere communities and their turnover across tree species, using host functional traits and phylogeny.

Results

Neotropical tree phyllosphere communities are dominated by functions related to the metabolism of carbohydrates, amino acids, and energy acquisition, alon

SUBMITTER: Lajoie G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7243311 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature