Metacommunity theory for transmission of heritable symbionts within insect communities
Abstract Microbial organisms are ubiquitous in nature and often form communities closely associated with their host, referred to as the microbiome. The microbiome has strong influence on species interactions, but microbiome studies rarely take interactions between hosts into account, and network int...
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| author | Joel J. Brown Joseph R. Mihaljevic Lauren Des Marteaux Jan Hrček |
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| description | Abstract Microbial organisms are ubiquitous in nature and often form communities closely associated with their host, referred to as the microbiome. The microbiome has strong influence on species interactions, but microbiome studies rarely take interactions between hosts into account, and network interaction studies rarely consider microbiomes. Here, we propose to use metacommunity theory as a framework to unify research on microbiomes and host communities by considering host insects and their microbes as discretely defined “communities of communities” linked by dispersal (transmission) through biotic interactions. We provide an overview of the effects of heritable symbiotic bacteria on their insect hosts and how those effects subsequently influence host interactions, thereby altering the host community. We suggest multiple scenarios for integrating the microbiome into metacommunity ecology and demonstrate ways in which to employ and parameterize models of symbiont transmission to quantitatively assess metacommunity processes in host‐associated microbial systems. Successfully incorporating microbiota into community‐level studies is a crucial step for understanding the importance of the microbiome to host species and their interactions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ce1abfee17ee4138a711bcb45761abf42022-12-21T19:47:15ZengWileyEcology and Evolution2045-77582020-02-011031703172110.1002/ece3.5754Metacommunity theory for transmission of heritable symbionts within insect communitiesJoel J. Brown0Joseph R. Mihaljevic1Lauren Des Marteaux2Jan Hrček3Faculty of Science University of South Bohemia Ceske Budejovice Czech RepublicSchool of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems Northern Arizona University Flagstaff AZ USABiology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences Institute of Entomology Ceske Budejovice Czech RepublicFaculty of Science University of South Bohemia Ceske Budejovice Czech RepublicAbstract Microbial organisms are ubiquitous in nature and often form communities closely associated with their host, referred to as the microbiome. The microbiome has strong influence on species interactions, but microbiome studies rarely take interactions between hosts into account, and network interaction studies rarely consider microbiomes. Here, we propose to use metacommunity theory as a framework to unify research on microbiomes and host communities by considering host insects and their microbes as discretely defined “communities of communities” linked by dispersal (transmission) through biotic interactions. We provide an overview of the effects of heritable symbiotic bacteria on their insect hosts and how those effects subsequently influence host interactions, thereby altering the host community. We suggest multiple scenarios for integrating the microbiome into metacommunity ecology and demonstrate ways in which to employ and parameterize models of symbiont transmission to quantitatively assess metacommunity processes in host‐associated microbial systems. Successfully incorporating microbiota into community‐level studies is a crucial step for understanding the importance of the microbiome to host species and their interactions.https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5754bacteriadispersalheritableinsectmetacommunitymicrobiome |
| spellingShingle | Joel J. Brown Joseph R. Mihaljevic Lauren Des Marteaux Jan Hrček Metacommunity theory for transmission of heritable symbionts within insect communities Ecology and Evolution bacteria dispersal heritable insect metacommunity microbiome |
| title | Metacommunity theory for transmission of heritable symbionts within insect communities |
| title_full | Metacommunity theory for transmission of heritable symbionts within insect communities |
| title_fullStr | Metacommunity theory for transmission of heritable symbionts within insect communities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Metacommunity theory for transmission of heritable symbionts within insect communities |
| title_short | Metacommunity theory for transmission of heritable symbionts within insect communities |
| title_sort | metacommunity theory for transmission of heritable symbionts within insect communities |
| topic | bacteria dispersal heritable insect metacommunity microbiome |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5754 |
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