Dissimilarity-Overlap analysis of replicate enrichment communities.

ABSTRACT: The taxonomic composition of microbial communities can vary substantially across habitats and within the same habitat over time. Efforts to build quantitative and predictive models of microbial population dynamics are underway, but fundamental questions remain. How different are population dynamics in different environments? Do communities that share the same taxa also exhibit identical dynamics? In vitro communities can help establish baseline expectations that are critical towards resolving these questions in natural communities. Here, we applied a recently developed tool, Dissimilarity-Overlap Analysis (DOA), to a set of experimental in vitro communities that differed in nutrient composition. The Dissimilarity and Overlap of these communities are negatively correlated in replicate habit

SUBMITTER: Vila JCC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7490387 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature