Nature Communications (May 2020)

Community-level signatures of ecological succession in natural bacterial communities

  • Alberto Pascual-García,
  • Thomas Bell

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16011-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Metagenome approaches can unravel relationships between environment, community composition, and ecological functions. Here, the authors show that bacterial communities sampled from rainwater pools can be clustered into few classes with distinct functional capacities and genetic repertoires, the assembly of which is likely driven by local conditions.