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Determining Microbial Niche Breadth in the Environment for Better Ecosystem Fate Predictions

Integrated omics applied to microbial communities offers a great opportunity to analyze the niche breadths (i.e., resource and condition ranges usable by a species) of constituent populations, ranging from generalists, with a broad niche breadth, to specialists, with a narrow one. In this context, e...

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Autor principal: Muller, Emilie E. L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6584867/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31186307
http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00080-19
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description Integrated omics applied to microbial communities offers a great opportunity to analyze the niche breadths (i.e., resource and condition ranges usable by a species) of constituent populations, ranging from generalists, with a broad niche breadth, to specialists, with a narrow one. In this context, extracellular metabolomics measurements describe resource spaces available to microbial populations; dedicated analyses of metagenomics data serve to describe the fundamental niches of constituent populations, and functional meta-omics becomes a proxy to characterize the realized niches of populations and their variations though time or space. Thus, the combination of environmental omics and its thorough interpretation allows us to directly describe niche breadths of constituent populations of a microbial community, precisely and in situ. This will greatly facilitate studies of the causes influencing ecosystem stability, resistance, and resilience, as well as generation of the necessary knowledge to model and predict the fate of any ecosystem in the current context of global change.
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spelling pubmed-65848672019-07-03 Determining Microbial Niche Breadth in the Environment for Better Ecosystem Fate Predictions Muller, Emilie E. L. mSystems Perspective Integrated omics applied to microbial communities offers a great opportunity to analyze the niche breadths (i.e., resource and condition ranges usable by a species) of constituent populations, ranging from generalists, with a broad niche breadth, to specialists, with a narrow one. In this context, extracellular metabolomics measurements describe resource spaces available to microbial populations; dedicated analyses of metagenomics data serve to describe the fundamental niches of constituent populations, and functional meta-omics becomes a proxy to characterize the realized niches of populations and their variations though time or space. Thus, the combination of environmental omics and its thorough interpretation allows us to directly describe niche breadths of constituent populations of a microbial community, precisely and in situ. This will greatly facilitate studies of the causes influencing ecosystem stability, resistance, and resilience, as well as generation of the necessary knowledge to model and predict the fate of any ecosystem in the current context of global change. American Society for Microbiology 2019-06-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6584867/ /pubmed/31186307 http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00080-19 Text en Copyright © 2019 Muller. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6584867/
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