It Takes a Village: Microbial Communities Thrive through Interactions and Metabolic Handoffs

ABSTRACT An enduring theme in microbial ecology is the interdependence of microbial community members. Interactions between community members include provision of cofactors, establishment of redox gradients, and turnover of key nutrients to drive biogeochemical cycles. Pathways canonically conducted...

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Autores principales:	Laura A. Hug, Rebecca Co
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Publicado:	American Society for Microbiology 2018
Materias:	biogeochemistry enrichment culture environmental microbiology metagenomics Microbiology QR1-502
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b5fdd165019c479196488f7fd10369f22021-12-02T19:47:34ZIt Takes a Village: Microbial Communities Thrive through Interactions and Metabolic Handoffs10.1128/mSystems.00152-172379-5077https://doaj.org/article/b5fdd165019c479196488f7fd10369f22018-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSystems.00152-17https://doaj.org/toc/2379-5077ABSTRACT An enduring theme in microbial ecology is the interdependence of microbial community members. Interactions between community members include provision of cofactors, establishment of redox gradients, and turnover of key nutrients to drive biogeochemical cycles. Pathways canonically conducted by isolated organisms in laboratory cultures are instead collective products of diverse and interchangeable microbes in the environment. Current sequence-based methods provide unprecedented access to uncultivated microorganisms, allowing prediction of previously cryptic roles in biogeochemical cycles and interactions within communities. A renewed focus on cultivation-based methods is required to test predictions derived from environmental sequence data sets and to address the exponential increase in genes lacking predicted functions. Characterization of enriched microbial consortia to annotate hypothetical proteins and identify previously unknown microbial functions can fundamentally change our understanding of biogeochemical cycles. As we gain understanding of microbial processes and interactions, our capacity to harness microbial activities to address anthropogenic impacts increases.Laura A. HugRebecca CoAmerican Society for Microbiologyarticlebiogeochemistryenrichment cultureenvironmental microbiologymetagenomicsMicrobiologyQR1-502ENmSystems, Vol 3, Iss 2 (2018)
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spellingShingle	biogeochemistry enrichment culture environmental microbiology metagenomics Microbiology QR1-502 Laura A. Hug Rebecca Co It Takes a Village: Microbial Communities Thrive through Interactions and Metabolic Handoffs
description	ABSTRACT An enduring theme in microbial ecology is the interdependence of microbial community members. Interactions between community members include provision of cofactors, establishment of redox gradients, and turnover of key nutrients to drive biogeochemical cycles. Pathways canonically conducted by isolated organisms in laboratory cultures are instead collective products of diverse and interchangeable microbes in the environment. Current sequence-based methods provide unprecedented access to uncultivated microorganisms, allowing prediction of previously cryptic roles in biogeochemical cycles and interactions within communities. A renewed focus on cultivation-based methods is required to test predictions derived from environmental sequence data sets and to address the exponential increase in genes lacking predicted functions. Characterization of enriched microbial consortia to annotate hypothetical proteins and identify previously unknown microbial functions can fundamentally change our understanding of biogeochemical cycles. As we gain understanding of microbial processes and interactions, our capacity to harness microbial activities to address anthropogenic impacts increases.
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title	It Takes a Village: Microbial Communities Thrive through Interactions and Metabolic Handoffs
title_short	It Takes a Village: Microbial Communities Thrive through Interactions and Metabolic Handoffs
title_full	It Takes a Village: Microbial Communities Thrive through Interactions and Metabolic Handoffs
title_fullStr	It Takes a Village: Microbial Communities Thrive through Interactions and Metabolic Handoffs
title_full_unstemmed	It Takes a Village: Microbial Communities Thrive through Interactions and Metabolic Handoffs
title_sort	it takes a village: microbial communities thrive through interactions and metabolic handoffs
publisher	American Society for Microbiology
publishDate	2018
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It Takes a Village: Microbial Communities Thrive through Interactions and Metabolic Handoffs

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