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Bin Ma^1,2, Yiling Wang¹, Shudi Ye¹

¹College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, Hangzhou, 310058, China.

|June 6, 2020

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This study reveals global microbial co-occurrence patterns across diverse environments. It highlights environment-specific microbial relationships and identifies key microbial hubs, offering a network perspective on microbiome structure.

Keywords:

Co-occurrence patterns Earth microbiomes Genelist edges Microbial network topology Negative co-occurrence Network hubs Specialist edges

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Microbial ecology
Network analysis
Bioinformatics

Background:

Microbial interactions are crucial for community structure and function.
Microbial co-occurrence networks explore complex systems.
Global interconnection patterns across diverse microbiomes remain unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

To infer an Earth microbial co-occurrence network.
To explore interconnection patterns across diverse environments globally.
To understand environment-specific microbial co-occurrence relationships.

Main Methods:

Inferred an Earth microbial co-occurrence network.
Utilized a communal catalog of 23,595 samples and 12,646 exact sequence variants.
Analyzed data from 14 environments in the Earth Microbiome Project dataset.

Main Results:

An Earth microbial co-occurrence network with 8 distinct modules linked to environments was constructed.
Environment-specific co-occurrence patterns and specialist edges were identified.
Microbiomes clustered into two groups, bridged by plant and animal surface microbiomes; Acidobacteria Gp2 and Nisaea were identified as hubs.

Conclusions:

Microbial co-occurrence features are essential across microbiomes.
Environmental specificity shapes microbial relationships.
A network perspective is crucial for understanding microbiome interconnection patterns.