由肠道微生物群介导的等级生态生态动态
Ellen Decaestecker1, Broos Van de Moortel1, Shinjini Mukherjee2
1Laboratory of Aquatic Biology, Interdisciplinary Research Facility Life Sciences, KU Leuven, KULAK, Campus Kortrijk, B-8500 Kortrijk, Belgium.
Trends in ecology & evolution
|October 20, 2023
概括
生态进化动态显示了生态和进化变化如何随着时间的推移相互作用. 肠道微生物组显著影响宿主表型,创造复杂的反循环,影响人口,社区和生态系统.
科学领域:
- 生态生态学 生态生态学
- 进化生物学 进化生物学
- 微生物组研究 微生物组研究
背景情况:
- 生态进化 (eco-evo) 动态整合了在相似的时间尺度上发生的生态和进化过程.
- 宿主表型对生态生态动力学至关重要,受到肠道微生物群的显著影响.
- 肠道微生物组在塑造宿主表型中的作用表明其在生态-evo反循环中的重要性.
研究的目的:
- 探索肠道微生物组组成和宿主生态进化动态之间的复杂关系.
- 研究肠道微生物组如何影响宿主表型,从而影响人口,社区和生态系统水平的变化.
- 阐明涉及肠道微生物组的自下而上和自上而下生态回循环的机制.
主要方法:
- 现有关于生态生态动力学和微生物群与宿主相互作用的研究的概念综合.
- 对描述微生物组对宿主表型中介作用的理论框架的分析.
- 检查宿主社区和肠道微生物社区之间的潜在反机制.
主要成果:
- 肠道微生物组显著影响宿主表型,从而影响生态生态的动态.
- 肠道微生物群和宿主社区之间的复杂反循环可能是常见的.
- 下向动态:微生物组的变化影响宿主表型,影响更高的生态水平.
- 上下动态:宿主社区的变化影响肠道微生物组结构.
结论:
- 肠道微生物组是调解生态生态动态的关键因素.
- 了解微生物组与宿主相互作用对于预测对环境变化的反应至关重要.
- 需要进一步研究涉及肠道微生物组的生态回应循环.
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