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Area of Science:

  • Evolutionary Biology
  • Microbiome Research
  • Computational Biology

Background:

  • Multicellular hosts and their associated microbial communities (microbiomes) engage in mutually beneficial interactions.
  • Hosts may invest resources to regulate and recruit specific microbes, incurring energetic costs that can impact fitness.
  • The evolutionary strategies balancing the costs of microbiome management against accrued benefits remain poorly understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how hosts evolve to balance the costs and benefits of expending resources for microbiome management.
  • To determine the conditions under which resource provisioning for microbiome regulation evolves.

Main Methods:

  • Extension of a previously developed agent-based computational model of host-microbiome evolution.
  • Incorporation of a resource provisioning process into the model.
  • Simulation of evolutionary dynamics under varying host-microbe interaction parameters.

Main Results:

  • Resource provisioning evolves when hosts transfer a high percentage of microbes to offspring and contribute a low percentage to the environment.
  • Resource provisioning does not evolve when hosts contribute a high percentage of their microbiome to the environment, as microbes can be acquired from environmental sources.
  • Hosts are less likely to provision resources for beneficial microbes if they can acquire them readily from the environment.

Conclusions:

  • Host resource provisioning for microbiome management is favored under specific transmission and environmental contribution scenarios.
  • Environmental acquisition of microbes can reduce the selective pressure for host resource provisioning.
  • The evolution of host strategies for microbiome management is contingent on the interplay between direct provisioning and environmental microbial availability.