Microbial Ecology: Community Coalescence Stirs Things Up

Matthias C Rillig; India Mansour

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.10.027

Microbial Ecology: Community Coalescence Stirs Things Up

Curr Biol. 2017 Dec 4;27(23):R1280-R1282. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.10.027.

Authors

Matthias C Rillig¹, India Mansour²

Affiliations

¹ Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Biologie, Altensteinstr. 6, D-14195 Berlin, Germany and Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), D-14195 Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: matthias.rillig@fu-berlin.de.
² Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Biologie, Altensteinstr. 6, D-14195 Berlin, Germany and Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research (BBIB), D-14195 Berlin, Germany.

PMID: 29207271
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.10.027

Abstract

When methane-producing microbial communities are mixed experimentally, the resulting community is dominated by the community with the greatest resource-use efficiency. These results suggest a degree of community cohesion, or the maintenance of that initial community in the mix.

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MeSH terms

Chemoautotrophic Growth
Euryarchaeota*
Methane
Microbiota*

Substances

Methane