Metagenomic assessment of the global diversity and distribution of bacteria and fungi.

ABSTRACT: Bacteria and fungi are of uttermost importance in determining environmental and host functioning. Despite close interactions between animals, plants, their associated microbiomes, and the environment they inhabit, the distribution and role of bacteria and especially fungi across host and environments as well as the cross-habitat determinants of their community compositions remain little investigated. Using a uniquely broad global dataset of 13 483 metagenomes, we analysed the microbiome structure and function of 25 host-associated and environmental habitats, focusing on potential interactions between bacteria and fungi. We found that the metagenomic relative abundance ratio of bacteria-to-fungi is a distinctive microbial feature of habitats. Compared with fungi, the cross-habitat distribut

SUBMITTER: Bahram M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7898879 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature