Higher-order effects, continuous species interactions, and trait evolution shape microbial spatial dynamics.

ABSTRACT: The assembly and maintenance of microbial diversity in natural communities, despite the abundance of toxin-based antagonistic interactions, presents major challenges for biological understanding. A common framework for investigating such antagonistic interactions involves cyclic dominance games with pairwise interactions. The incorporation of higher-order interactions in such models permits increased levels of microbial diversity, especially in communities in which antibiotic-producing, sensitive, and resistant strains coexist. However, most such models involve a small number of discrete species, assume a notion of pure cyclic dominance, and focus on low mutation rate regimes, none of which well represent the highly interlinked, quickly evolving, and continuous nature of microbial phenotyp

SUBMITTER: Swain A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8740587 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature