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Metabolic specialization and the assembly of microbial communities [PDF]

open access: yesThe ISME Journal, 2012
Abstract Metabolic specialization is a general biological principle that shapes the assembly of microbial communities. Individual cell types rarely metabolize a wide range of substrates within their environment. Instead, different cell types often specialize at metabolizing only subsets of the available substrates.
David R, Johnson   +3 more
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Stochastic Assembly Leads to Alternative Communities with Distinct Functions in a Bioreactor Microbial Community

open access: yesmBio, 2013
The processes and mechanisms of community assembly and its relationships to community functioning are central issues in ecology. Both deterministic and stochastic factors play important roles in shaping community composition and structure, but the ...
Jizhong Zhou   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Structural Characteristics and Assembly Mechanisms of Soil Microbial Communities under Water–Salt Gradients in Arid Regions

open access: yesMicroorganisms, 2023
Exploring the structural characteristics of arid soil microbial communities and their assembly mechanisms is important for understanding the ecological characteristics of arid zone soils and promoting ecological restoration.
Guang Yang   +4 more
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Community Assembly Processes of the Microbial Rare Biosphere [PDF]

open access: yesTrends in Microbiology, 2018
Our planet teems with microorganisms that often present a skewed abundance distribution in a local community, with relatively few dominant species coexisting alongside a high number of rare species. Recent studies have demonstrated that these rare taxa serve as limitless reservoirs of genetic diversity, and perform disproportionate types of functions ...
Xiu, Jia   +2 more
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Estimating and mapping ecological processes influencing microbial community assembly [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2015
Ecological community assembly is governed by a combination of (i) selection resulting from among-taxa differences in performance; (ii) dispersal resulting from organismal movement; and (iii) ecological drift resulting from stochastic changes in population sizes.
Stegen, James C.   +3 more
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Abundant and Rare Microbial Communities Respectively Contribute to an Aquaculture Pond Ecosystem

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Unraveling the assembly mechanism is a core research topic of microbial ecology. Abundant and rare microbial communities are crucial for diversity, function and host health in a given ecosystem, but few studies focused on their assembly strategies. Here,
Dongwei Hou   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Microbial interactions and community assembly at microscales

open access: yesCurrent Opinion in Microbiology, 2016
In most environments, microbial interactions take place within microscale cell aggregates. At the scale of these aggregates (∼100μm), interactions are likely to be the dominant driver of population structure and dynamics. In particular, organisms that exploit interspecific interactions to increase ecological performance often co-aggregate.
Cordero Sanchez, Otto X.   +1 more
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From the Sunlit to the Aphotic Zone: Assembly Mechanisms and Co-Occurrence Patterns of Protistan-Bacterial Microbiotas in the Western Pacific Ocean

open access: yesmSystems, 2023
We know little about the assembly processes and association patterns of microbial communities below the photic zone. In marine pelagic systems, there are insufficient observational data regarding why and how the microbial assemblies and associations vary
Ping Sun   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

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