Department of Biological and Environmental Science, P.O. Box 35, 40014 University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.
Department of Biology, 20014 University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Sci Rep. 2019 Mar 27;9(1):5253. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-41603-5.
Keystone microbial species have driven eco-evolutionary processes since the origin of life. However, due to our inability to detect the majority of microbiota, members of diverse microbial communities of fungi, bacteria and viruses have largely been ignored as keystone species in past literature. Here we tested whether heritable Epichloë species of pooidae grasses modulate microbiota of their shared host plant.
关键微生物物种自生命起源以来就推动了生态进化过程。然而,由于我们无法检测到大多数微生物群,过去的文献中很大程度上忽略了真菌、细菌和病毒等多样化微生物群落的成员作为关键物种。在这里,我们测试了禾本科植物中的可遗传的披碱草内生真菌是否会调节其共同宿主植物的微生物群。