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  • Systems Biology

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  • Interspecific interactions shape microbial community structure and function.
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  • Predicting community-level impacts from single-species effects remains a challenge.

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  • To determine if joint species effects are additive or predictable from individual species interactions.
  • To explore the relationship between single-species effects and community-level outcomes.

Main Methods:

  • Assayed thousands of bacterial communities with two, three, and four species.
  • Measured the effects of 61 potential interacting species on six focal species.
  • Analyzed single-species, pairwise, and trio effects to understand joint impacts.

Main Results:

  • Joint effects of multiple species on a focal species are often non-additive.
  • When multiple species exert negative effects, the strongest individual effect typically dominates.
  • Community-level effects can be predicted from individual species' impacts, despite non-additivity.

Conclusions:

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  • Pairwise interaction data can inform the mapping of complex microbial interaction networks.
  • Findings have implications for invasive species, probiotics, and biocontrol applications.