Quantifying (non)parallelism of gut microbial community change using multivariate vector analysis.

ABSTRACT: Parallel evolution of phenotypic traits is regarded as strong evidence for natural selection and has been studied extensively in a variety of taxa. However, we have limited knowledge of whether parallel evolution of host organisms is accompanied by parallel changes of their associated microbial communities (i.e., microbiotas), which are crucial for their hosts' ecology and evolution. Determining the extent of microbiota parallelism in nature can improve our ability to identify the factors that are associated with (putatively adaptive) shifts in microbial communities. While it has been emphasized that (non)parallel evolution is better considered as a quantitative continuum rather than a binary phenomenon, quantitative approaches have rarely been used to study microbiota parallelism. We advo

SUBMITTER: Harer A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9797641 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature