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ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.15315
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31570098, 31970109]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2017YFC0909502]
- China Post-doctoral Science Foundation [2015M582247]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [CCNU16A02046, CCNU18ZDPY03]
- Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station
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Microbial taxon-taxon co-occurrences reflect potential relationships within a microbial community, influenced by environmental factors. Using a Modified Liquid Association method, over 1000 taxon-taxon co-occurrences highly correlated with environmental factors were detected in Nan Lake, China. These co-occurrences, known as environment dependent co-occurrences (ED_co-occurrences), reveal a unique network showing specific relationships between taxa and environmental parameters.
Microbial taxon-taxon co-occurrences may directly or indirectly reflect the potential relationships between the members within a microbial community. However, to what extent and the specificity by which these co-occurrences are influenced by environmental factors remains unclear. In this report, we evaluated how the dynamics of microbial taxon-taxon co-occurrence is associated with the changes of environmental factors in Nan Lake at Wuhan city, China with a Modified Liquid Association method. We were able to detect more than 1000 taxon-taxon co-occurrences highly correlated with one or more environmental factors across a phytoplankton bloom using 16S rRNA gene amplicon community profiles. These co-occurrences, referred to as environment dependent co-occurrences (ED_co-occurrences), delineate a unique network in which a taxon-taxon pair exhibits specific, and potentially dynamic correlations with an environmental parameter, while the individual relative abundance of each may not. Microcystis involved ED_co-occurrences are in important topological positions in the network, suggesting relationships between the bloom dominant species and other taxa could play a role in the interplay of microbial community and environment across various bloom stages. Our results may broaden our understanding of the response of a microbial community to the environment, particularly at the level of microbe-microbe associations.
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