Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 7, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 7, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Trends Microbiol. 2019 Jul;27(7):635-650. doi: 10.1016/j.tim.2019.03.002. Epub 2019 May 2.
When studying the effects of climate change on eukaryotic organisms we often oversee a major ecological process: the interaction with microbes. Eukaryotic hosts and microbes form functional units, termed holobionts, where microbes play crucial roles in host functioning. Environmental stress may disturb these complex mutualistic relations. Macroalgae form the foundation of coastal ecosystems worldwide and provide important ecosystem services - services they could likely not provide without their microbial associates. Still, today we do not know how environmental stress will affect the macroalgal holobiont in an increasingly changing ocean. In this review, we provide a conceptual framework that contributes to understanding the different levels at which the holobiont and environment interact, and we suggest a manipulative experimental approach as a guideline for future research.
当研究气候变化对真核生物的影响时，我们常常忽略一个主要的生态过程：与微生物的相互作用。真核宿主和微生物形成功能单元，称为“整体生物”，其中微生物在宿主功能中发挥关键作用。环境压力可能会干扰这些复杂的共生关系。大型藻类是世界沿海生态系统的基础，提供重要的生态系统服务——如果没有它们的微生物伙伴，这些服务可能无法提供。尽管如此，我们今天仍然不知道环境压力将如何影响日益变化的海洋中的大型藻类整体生物。在这篇综述中，我们提供了一个概念框架，有助于理解整体生物和环境相互作用的不同层次，并提出了一种操纵性实验方法作为未来研究的指导方针。
