The role of competition versus cooperation in microbial community coalescence.

ABSTRACT: New microbial communities often arise through the mixing of two or more separately assembled parent communities, a phenomenon that has been termed "community coalescence". Understanding how the interaction structures of complex parent communities determine the outcomes of coalescence events is an important challenge. While recent work has begun to elucidate the role of competition in coalescence, that of cooperation, a key interaction type commonly seen in microbial communities, is still largely unknown. Here, using a general consumer-resource model, we study the combined effects of competitive and cooperative interactions on the outcomes of coalescence events. To do so, we simulate coalescence events between pairs of communities with different degrees of competition for shared carbon reso

SUBMITTER: Lechon-Alonso P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8601617 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature