Ecological modelling approaches for predicting emergent properties in microbial communities

NI van den Berg, D Machado, S Santos… - Nature ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Recent studies have brought forward the critical role of emergent properties in shaping
microbial communities and the ecosystems of which they are a part. Emergent properties …

The role of energy source or substrate in microbial hormesis

L Tang, Y Zhou, Y Zhang, H Sun - Current Opinion in Toxicology, 2022 - Elsevier
The hormetic dose–response has been frequently reported in a diverse set of microbial
species. However, the role of energy source or substrate in microbial hormesis has not …

Emergent coexistence in multispecies microbial communities

CY Chang, D Bajić, JCC Vila, S Estrela, A Sanchez - Science, 2023 - science.org
Understanding the mechanisms that maintain microbial biodiversity is a critical aspiration in
ecology. Past work on microbial coexistence has largely focused on species pairs, but it is …

[HTML][HTML] Inoculated microbial consortia perform better than single strains in living soil: A meta-analysis

X Liu, S Mei, JF Salles - Applied Soil Ecology, 2023 - Elsevier
Microbial consortium inoculation has been proposed as a natural-based strategy to
safeguard multiple ecosystem services. Still, its observed effects and comparisons to single …

Nutrient dominance governs the assembly of microbial communities in mixed nutrient environments

S Estrela, A Sanchez-Gorostiaga, JCC Vila, A Sanchez - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
A major open question in microbial community ecology is whether we can predict how the
components of a diet collectively determine the taxonomic composition of microbial …

Soil actinobacteria tend to have neutral interactions with other co‐occurring microorganisms, especially under oligotrophic conditions

B Yan, N Liu, M Liu, X Du, F Shang… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Actinobacteria produce a variety of secondary metabolites that can influence the survival or
behaviour of other organisms. The understanding of the ecological roles of actinobacteria …

Genetic basis for the biodegradation of a polyether-polyurethane-acrylic copolymer by a landfill microbial community inferred by metagenomic deconvolution analysis

A Sánchez-Reyes, I Gaytán, J Pulido-García… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Plastic accumulation in the world amounts to approximately 8300 million tons.
Polyurethanes (PU) account for 7.7% of total plastics production worldwide, and their …

Controlling microbial co-culture based on substrate pulsing can lead to stability through differential fitness advantages

JA Martinez, M Delvenne, L Henrion… - PLOS Computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Microbial consortia are an exciting alternative for increasing the performances of
bioprocesses for the production of complex metabolic products. However, the functional …

Environmental fluctuations explain the universal decay of species-abundance correlations with phylogenetic distance

M Sireci, MA Muñoz, J Grilli - Proceedings of the National …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Multiple ecological forces act together to shape the composition of microbial communities.
Phyloecology approaches—which combine phylogenetic relationships between species …

The architecture of metabolic networks constrains the evolution of microbial resource hierarchies

S Takano, JCC Vila, R Miyazaki… - … Biology and Evolution, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Microbial strategies for resource use are an essential determinant of their fitness in complex
habitats. When facing environments with multiple nutrients, microbes often use them …