Cross-feeding in the gut microbiome: ecology and mechanisms

EJ Culp, AL Goodman - Cell host & microbe, 2023 - cell.com
Microbial communities are shaped by positive and negative interactions ranging from
competition to mutualism. In the context of the mammalian gut and its microbial inhabitants …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A pan-cancer mycobiome analysis reveals fungal involvement in gastrointestinal and lung tumors

AB Dohlman, J Klug, M Mesko, IH Gao, SM Lipkin… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Fungal microorganisms (mycobiota) comprise a small but immunoreactive component of the
human microbiome, yet little is known about their role in human cancers. Pan-cancer …

Climate warming enhances microbial network complexity and stability

MM Yuan, X Guo, L Wu, YA Zhang, N Xiao… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Unravelling the relationships between network complexity and stability under changing
climate is a challenging topic in theoretical ecology that remains understudied in the field of …

[HTML][HTML] Specialized metabolic functions of keystone taxa sustain soil microbiome stability

W Xun, Y Liu, W Li, Y Ren, W Xiong, Z Xu, N Zhang… - Microbiome, 2021 - Springer
Background The relationship between biodiversity and soil microbiome stability remains
poorly understood. Here, we investigated the impacts of bacterial phylogenetic diversity on …

Soil microbial network complexity predicts ecosystem function along elevation gradients on the Tibetan Plateau

W Chen, J Wang, X Chen, Z Meng, R Xu… - Soil Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The contributions of soil microbial diversity for the multifunctionality of ecosystem functions
remain little understood despite the well-known importance of soil microbial communities for …

Co‐occurrence is not evidence of ecological interactions

FG Blanchet, K Cazelles, D Gravel - Ecology Letters, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
There is a rich amount of information in co‐occurrence (presence–absence) data that could
be used to understand community assembly. This proposition first envisioned by Forbes …

Balance between community assembly processes mediates species coexistence in agricultural soil microbiomes across eastern China

S Jiao, Y Yang, Y Xu, J Zhang, Y Lu - The ISME Journal, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Revealing the linkages between community assembly and species coexistence, which is
crucial for the understanding of ecosystem diversity and functioning, is a fundamental but …

[HTML][HTML] Inter-bacterial mutualism promoted by public goods in a system characterized by deterministic temperature variation

Y Zhao, Z Liu, B Zhang, J Cai, X Yao, M Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Mutualism is commonly observed in nature but not often reported for bacterial communities.
Although abiotic stress is thought to promote microbial mutualism, there is a paucity of …

[HTML][HTML] Ecological stability of microbial communities in Lake Donghu regulated by keystone taxa

S Liu, H Yu, Y Yu, J Huang, Z Zhou, J Zeng, P Chen… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Seasonal variations of environmental factors generally result in considerable changes in
microbiomes, yet we still lack a clear understanding of how microbial communities maintain …