Generalizing game-changing species across microbial communities
<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Microbes form multispecies communities that play essential roles in our environment and health. Not surprisingly, there is an increasing need for understanding if certain invader species will modify a given microbial community, producing eit...
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| author | Deng, Jie Angulo, Marco Tulio Saavedra, Serguei |
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| description | <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Microbes form multispecies communities that play essential roles in our environment and health. Not surprisingly, there is an increasing need for understanding if certain invader species will modify a given microbial community, producing either a desired or undesired change in the observed collection of resident species. However, the complex interactions that species can establish between each other and the diverse external factors underlying their dynamics have made constructing such understanding context-specific. Here we integrate tractable theoretical systems with tractable experimental systems to find general conditions under which non-resident species can change the collection of resident communities—<jats:italic>game-changing</jats:italic> species. We show that non-resident colonizers are more likely to be game-changers than transients, whereas game-changers are more likely to suppress than to promote resident species. Importantly, we find general heuristic rules for game-changers under controlled environments by integrating mutual invasibility theory with in vitro experimental systems, and general heuristic rules under changing environments by integrating structuralist theory with in vivo experimental systems. Despite the strong context-dependency of microbial communities, our work shows that under an appropriate integration of tractable theoretical and experimental systems, it is possible to unveil regularities that can then be potentially extended to understand the behavior of complex natural communities.</jats:p> |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1486342023-03-22T03:52:50Z Generalizing game-changing species across microbial communities Deng, Jie Angulo, Marco Tulio Saavedra, Serguei Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Microbes form multispecies communities that play essential roles in our environment and health. Not surprisingly, there is an increasing need for understanding if certain invader species will modify a given microbial community, producing either a desired or undesired change in the observed collection of resident species. However, the complex interactions that species can establish between each other and the diverse external factors underlying their dynamics have made constructing such understanding context-specific. Here we integrate tractable theoretical systems with tractable experimental systems to find general conditions under which non-resident species can change the collection of resident communities—<jats:italic>game-changing</jats:italic> species. We show that non-resident colonizers are more likely to be game-changers than transients, whereas game-changers are more likely to suppress than to promote resident species. Importantly, we find general heuristic rules for game-changers under controlled environments by integrating mutual invasibility theory with in vitro experimental systems, and general heuristic rules under changing environments by integrating structuralist theory with in vivo experimental systems. Despite the strong context-dependency of microbial communities, our work shows that under an appropriate integration of tractable theoretical and experimental systems, it is possible to unveil regularities that can then be potentially extended to understand the behavior of complex natural communities.</jats:p> 2023-03-21T12:44:41Z 2023-03-21T12:44:41Z 2021 2023-03-21T12:39:35Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/148634 Deng, Jie, Angulo, Marco Tulio and Saavedra, Serguei. 2021. "Generalizing game-changing species across microbial communities." ISME Communications, 1 (1). en 10.1038/S43705-021-00022-2 ISME Communications Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Springer Science and Business Media LLC Nature |
| spellingShingle | Deng, Jie Angulo, Marco Tulio Saavedra, Serguei Generalizing game-changing species across microbial communities |
| title | Generalizing game-changing species across microbial communities |
| title_full | Generalizing game-changing species across microbial communities |
| title_fullStr | Generalizing game-changing species across microbial communities |
| title_full_unstemmed | Generalizing game-changing species across microbial communities |
| title_short | Generalizing game-changing species across microbial communities |
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