Dynamic character displacement among a pair of bacterial phyllosphere commensals in situ.

ABSTRACT: Differences between species promote stable coexistence in a resource-limited environment. These differences can result from interspecies competition leading to character shifts, a process referred to as character displacement. While character displacement is often interpreted as a consequence of genetically fixed trait differences between species, it can also be mediated by phenotypic plasticity in response to the presence of another species. Here, we test whether phenotypic plasticity leads to a shift in proteome allocation during co-occurrence of two bacterial species from the abundant, leaf-colonizing families Sphingomonadaceae and Rhizobiaceae in their natural habitat. Upon mono-colonizing of the phyllosphere, both species exhibit specific and shared protein functions indicating a nich

SUBMITTER: Hemmerle L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9123166 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature