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Assembling microbial communities: a genomic analysis of a natural experiment in neotropical bamboo internodes
Microbes participate in ecological communities, much like multicellular organisms. However, microbial communities lack the centuries of observation and theory describing and predicting ecological processes available for multicellular organisms. Here, we examine early bacterial community assembly in...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9484453/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36132220 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13958 |
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author | Ahluwalia, Sonia Holmes, Iris von May, Rudolf Rabosky, Daniel L. Davis Rabosky, Alison R. |
author_facet | Ahluwalia, Sonia Holmes, Iris von May, Rudolf Rabosky, Daniel L. Davis Rabosky, Alison R. |
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description | Microbes participate in ecological communities, much like multicellular organisms. However, microbial communities lack the centuries of observation and theory describing and predicting ecological processes available for multicellular organisms. Here, we examine early bacterial community assembly in the water-filled internodes of Amazonian bamboos from the genus Guadua. Bamboo stands form distinct habitat patches within the lowland Amazonian rainforest and provide habitat for a suite of vertebrate and invertebrate species. Guadua bamboos develop sealed, water-filled internodes as they grow. Internodes are presumed sterile or near sterile while closed, but most are eventually opened to the environment by animals, after which they are colonized by microbes. We find that microbial community diversity increases sharply over the first few days of environmental exposure, and taxonomic identity of the microbes changes through this time period as is predicted for early community assembly in macroscopic communities. Microbial community taxonomic turnover is consistent at the bacteria phylum level, but at the level of Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs), internode communities become increasingly differentiated through time. We argue that these tropical bamboos form an ideal study system for microbial community ecology due to their near-sterile condition prior to opening, relatively consistent environment after opening, and functionally limitless possibilities for replicates. Given the possible importance of opened internode habitats as locations of transmission for both pathogenic and beneficial microbes among animals, understanding the microbial dynamics of the internode habitat is a key conservation concern for the insect and amphibian species that use this microhabitat. |
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spelling | pubmed-94844532022-09-20 Assembling microbial communities: a genomic analysis of a natural experiment in neotropical bamboo internodes Ahluwalia, Sonia Holmes, Iris von May, Rudolf Rabosky, Daniel L. Davis Rabosky, Alison R. PeerJ Ecology Microbes participate in ecological communities, much like multicellular organisms. However, microbial communities lack the centuries of observation and theory describing and predicting ecological processes available for multicellular organisms. Here, we examine early bacterial community assembly in the water-filled internodes of Amazonian bamboos from the genus Guadua. Bamboo stands form distinct habitat patches within the lowland Amazonian rainforest and provide habitat for a suite of vertebrate and invertebrate species. Guadua bamboos develop sealed, water-filled internodes as they grow. Internodes are presumed sterile or near sterile while closed, but most are eventually opened to the environment by animals, after which they are colonized by microbes. We find that microbial community diversity increases sharply over the first few days of environmental exposure, and taxonomic identity of the microbes changes through this time period as is predicted for early community assembly in macroscopic communities. Microbial community taxonomic turnover is consistent at the bacteria phylum level, but at the level of Operational Taxonomic Units (OTUs), internode communities become increasingly differentiated through time. We argue that these tropical bamboos form an ideal study system for microbial community ecology due to their near-sterile condition prior to opening, relatively consistent environment after opening, and functionally limitless possibilities for replicates. Given the possible importance of opened internode habitats as locations of transmission for both pathogenic and beneficial microbes among animals, understanding the microbial dynamics of the internode habitat is a key conservation concern for the insect and amphibian species that use this microhabitat. PeerJ Inc. 2022-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9484453/ /pubmed/36132220 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13958 Text en © 2022 Ahluwalia et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. |
spellingShingle | Ecology Ahluwalia, Sonia Holmes, Iris von May, Rudolf Rabosky, Daniel L. Davis Rabosky, Alison R. Assembling microbial communities: a genomic analysis of a natural experiment in neotropical bamboo internodes |
title | Assembling microbial communities: a genomic analysis of a natural experiment in neotropical bamboo internodes |
title_full | Assembling microbial communities: a genomic analysis of a natural experiment in neotropical bamboo internodes |
title_fullStr | Assembling microbial communities: a genomic analysis of a natural experiment in neotropical bamboo internodes |
title_full_unstemmed | Assembling microbial communities: a genomic analysis of a natural experiment in neotropical bamboo internodes |
title_short | Assembling microbial communities: a genomic analysis of a natural experiment in neotropical bamboo internodes |
title_sort | assembling microbial communities: a genomic analysis of a natural experiment in neotropical bamboo internodes |
topic | Ecology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9484453/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36132220 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13958 |
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