Nature Communications (May 2021)

Community composition of microbial microcosms follows simple assembly rules at evolutionary timescales

  • Nittay Meroz,
  • Nesli Tovi,
  • Yael Sorokin,
  • Jonathan Friedman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23247-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Evolution affects microbial community composition, but it is still unknown how commonly compositions change, and how predictable such changes are. Using experimental evolution, Meroz et al. show that compositional changes typically occur within ~400 generations, and are predictable by a bottom-up approach.