Top-down and bottom-up cohesiveness in microbial community coalescence.

ABSTRACT: Microbial communities frequently invade one another as a whole, a phenomenon known as community coalescence. Despite its potential importance for the assembly, dynamics, and stability of microbial consortia, as well as its prospective utility for microbiome engineering, our understanding of the processes that govern it is still very limited. Theory has suggested that microbial communities may exhibit cohesiveness in the face of invasions emerging from collective metabolic interactions across microbes and their environment. This cohesiveness may lead to correlated invasional outcomes, where the fate of a given taxon is determined by that of other members of its community-a hypothesis known as ecological coselection. Here, we have performed over 100 invasion and coalescence experiments with

SUBMITTER: Diaz-Colunga J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8832967 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature