Satari Leila, Iglesias Alba, Porcar Manuel
Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio), Universitat de València-CSIC, 46980 Paterna, Spain.
Darwin Bioprospecting Excellence SL., Parc Científic, Universitat de València, 46980 Paterna, Spain.
Microorganisms. 2023 Jun 6;11(6):1507. doi: 10.3390/microorganisms11061507.
As it is the case with natural substrates, artificial surfaces of man-made devices are home to a myriad of microbial species. Artificial products are not necessarily characterized by human-associated microbiomes; instead, they can present original microbial populations shaped by specific environmental-often extreme-selection pressures. This review provides a detailed insight into the microbial ecology of a range of artificial devices, machines, and appliances, which we argue are specific microbial niches that do not necessarily fit in the "build environment" microbiome definition. Instead, we propose here the Microbiome of Things (MoT) concept analogous to the Internet of Things (IoT) because we believe it may be useful to shed light on human-made, but not necessarily human-related, unexplored microbial niches.
与天然基质的情况一样，人造设备的人工表面也是无数微生物物种的栖息地。人造产品不一定具有与人类相关的微生物群落特征；相反，它们可能呈现出由特定环境（通常是极端环境）选择压力塑造的原始微生物种群。本综述详细介绍了一系列人造设备、机器和器具的微生物生态学，我们认为这些是特定的微生物生态位，不一定符合“建筑环境”微生物群落的定义。相反，我们在此提出类似于物联网（IoT）的万物微生物群落（MoT）概念，因为我们相信它可能有助于揭示人造但不一定与人类相关的未探索微生物生态位。
