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In Living Color: Pigment-Based Microbial Ecology At the Mineral–Air Interface
Pigment-based color is one of the most important phenotypic traits of biofilms at the mineral–air interface (subaerial biofilms, SABs), because it reflects the physiology of the microbial community. Because color is the hallmark of all SABs, we argue that pigment-based color could convey the mechani...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9699719/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36451971 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac091 |
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author | Villa, Federica Wu, Ying-Li Zerboni, Andrea Cappitelli, Francesca |
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description | Pigment-based color is one of the most important phenotypic traits of biofilms at the mineral–air interface (subaerial biofilms, SABs), because it reflects the physiology of the microbial community. Because color is the hallmark of all SABs, we argue that pigment-based color could convey the mechanisms that drive microbial adaptation and coexistence across different terrestrial environments and link phenotypic traits to community fitness and ecological dynamics. Within this framework, we present the most relevant microbial pigments at the mineral–air interface and discuss some of the evolutionary landscapes that necessitate pigments as adaptive strategies for resource allocation and survivability. We report several pigment features that reflect SAB communities’ structure and function, as well as pigment ecology in the context of microbial life-history strategies and coexistence theory. Finally, we conclude the study of pigment-based ecology by presenting its potential application and some of the key challenges in the research. |
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spelling | pubmed-96997192022-11-29 In Living Color: Pigment-Based Microbial Ecology At the Mineral–Air Interface Villa, Federica Wu, Ying-Li Zerboni, Andrea Cappitelli, Francesca Bioscience Overview Articles Pigment-based color is one of the most important phenotypic traits of biofilms at the mineral–air interface (subaerial biofilms, SABs), because it reflects the physiology of the microbial community. Because color is the hallmark of all SABs, we argue that pigment-based color could convey the mechanisms that drive microbial adaptation and coexistence across different terrestrial environments and link phenotypic traits to community fitness and ecological dynamics. Within this framework, we present the most relevant microbial pigments at the mineral–air interface and discuss some of the evolutionary landscapes that necessitate pigments as adaptive strategies for resource allocation and survivability. We report several pigment features that reflect SAB communities’ structure and function, as well as pigment ecology in the context of microbial life-history strategies and coexistence theory. Finally, we conclude the study of pigment-based ecology by presenting its potential application and some of the key challenges in the research. Oxford University Press 2022-10-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9699719/ /pubmed/36451971 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac091 Text en © The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
spellingShingle | Overview Articles Villa, Federica Wu, Ying-Li Zerboni, Andrea Cappitelli, Francesca In Living Color: Pigment-Based Microbial Ecology At the Mineral–Air Interface |
title | In Living Color: Pigment-Based Microbial Ecology At the Mineral–Air Interface |
title_full | In Living Color: Pigment-Based Microbial Ecology At the Mineral–Air Interface |
title_fullStr | In Living Color: Pigment-Based Microbial Ecology At the Mineral–Air Interface |
title_full_unstemmed | In Living Color: Pigment-Based Microbial Ecology At the Mineral–Air Interface |
title_short | In Living Color: Pigment-Based Microbial Ecology At the Mineral–Air Interface |
title_sort | in living color: pigment-based microbial ecology at the mineral–air interface |
topic | Overview Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9699719/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36451971 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biac091 |
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