Strain-Level Diversity Impacts Cheese Rind Microbiome Assembly and Function.

ABSTRACT: Diversification can generate genomic and phenotypic strain-level diversity within microbial species. This microdiversity is widely recognized in populations, but the community-level consequences of microbial strain-level diversity are poorly characterized. Using the cheese rind model system, we tested whether strain diversity across microbiomes from distinct geographic regions impacts assembly dynamics and functional outputs. We first isolated the same three bacterial species (Staphylococcus equorum, Brevibacterium auranticum, and Brachybacterium alimentarium) from nine cheeses produced in different regions of the United States and Europe to construct nine synthetic microbial communities consisting of distinct strains of the same three bacterial species. Comparative ge

SUBMITTER: Niccum BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7300356 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature