在由细胞大小分离的同时存在的微生物群体之间,社区组装过程中的协调和分歧
Xinghao Li1,2, James C Stegen3, Yuhe Yu2
1Hubei Key Laboratory of Regional Development and Environmental Response, Hubei Engineering Research Center for Rural Drinking Water Safety, Hubei University, Wuhan, China.
Frontiers in microbiology
|June 19, 2023
概括
身体大小影响微生物社区结构. 微真核生物与较小的不同,与原核生物共享组装模式,这表明细胞大小会影响水生微生物食物网中的生态过程.
科学领域:
- 生态生态学 生态生态学
- 微生物学 微生物学
- 临界技术 临界技术
背景情况:
- 身体尺寸是构建生态社区和食物网的关键因素.
- 身体尺寸对微生物社区聚集过程的影响在很大程度上仍未被探索.
- 了解这些过程对于预测微生物生态系统动态至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 研究体型在塑造微生物真核生物和原核生物群落中的作用.
- 为了解开管理不同微生物大小类别的生态组装过程.
- 以细胞大小为基础,比较微生物真核生物和原核生物之间的组装模式.
主要方法:
- 分析中国最大的城市湖中的微生物多样性.
- 用于微生物真核生物和原核生物的16S和18S安普利康序列.
- 在pico/nano-eukaryotes (0.2220μm) 和微-eukaryotes (20200μm) 之间进行区分.
主要成果:
- 皮科/纳米和微真核生物表现出不同的社区组成和组装过程,尽管它们的多样性相似.
- 微真核生物组合受到环境选择 (本地) 和分散限制 (区域) 的影响.
- 微真核生物,而不是pico/nano-eukaryotes,与 prokaryotes 共享的组装模式,表明大小依赖的合.
结论:
- 细胞微生物的组装过程可以与细胞核结合或脱,受细胞细胞大小的影响.
- 电池大小是一个重要的因素,但其他驱动因素也可能影响组装过程的合.
- 微生物群落中的尺寸结构模式为扰乱下的食物网转移提供了预测能力.
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