Authors
Victor T Schmidt, Katherine F Smith, Donald W Melvin, Linda A Amaral‐Zettler
Publication date
2015/5
Journal
Molecular ecology
Volume
24
Issue
10
Pages
2537-2550
Description
Microbiomes play a critical role in promoting a range of host functions. Microbiome function, in turn, is dependent on its community composition. Yet, how microbiome taxa are assembled from their regional species pool remains unclear. Many possible drivers have been hypothesized, including deterministic processes of competition, stochastic processes of colonization and migration, and physiological ‘host‐effect’ habitat filters. The contribution of each to assembly in nascent or perturbed microbiomes is important for understanding host–microbe interactions and host health. In this study, we characterized the bacterial communities in a euryhaline fish and the surrounding tank water during salinity acclimation. To assess the relative influence of stochastic versus deterministic processes in fish microbiome assembly, we manipulated the bacterial species pool around each fish by changing the salinity of aquarium …
Scholar articles
VT Schmidt, KF Smith, DW Melvin, LA Amaral‐Zettler - Molecular ecology, 2015