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- Title
Assessing the importance of interspecific interactions in the evolution of microbial communities.
- Authors
Raynaud, Tiffany; Blouin, Manuel; Devers‐Lamrani, Marion; Garmyn, Dominique; Spor, Aymé
- Abstract
Interspecific interactions play an important role in the establishment of a community phenotype. Furthermore, the evolution of a community can both occur through an independent evolution of the species composing the community and the interactions among them. In this study, we investigated how important the evolution of interspecific interactions was in the evolutionary response of eight two‐bacterial species communities regarding productivity. We found evidence for an evolution of the interactions in half of the studied communities, which gave rise to a mean change of 15% in community productivity as compared to what was expected from the individual responses. Even when the interactions did not evolve themselves, they influenced the evolutionary responses of the bacterial strains within the communities, which further affected community response. We found that evolution within a community often promoted the adaptation of the bacterial strains to the abiotic environment, especially for the dominant strain in a community. Overall, this study suggested that the evolution of the interspecific interactions was frequent and that it could increase community response to evolution.
- Subjects
MICROBIAL communities; ABIOTIC environment; BACTERIAL adaptation
- Publication
Ecology & Evolution (20457758), 2022, Vol 12, Issue 11, p1
- ISSN
2045-7758
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ece3.9494