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Models of microbiome evolution incorporating host and microbial selection

Overview of attention for article published in Microbiome, September 2017
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Title
Models of microbiome evolution incorporating host and microbial selection
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Microbiome, September 2017
DOI 10.1186/s40168-017-0343-x
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Qinglong Zeng, Steven Wu, Jeet Sukumaran, Allen Rodrigo

Abstract

Numerous empirical studies suggest that hosts and microbes exert reciprocal selective effects on their ecological partners. Nonetheless, we still lack an explicit framework to model the dynamics of both hosts and microbes under selection. In a previous study, we developed an agent-based forward-time computational framework to simulate the neutral evolution of host-associated microbial communities in a constant-sized, unstructured population of hosts. These neutral models allowed offspring to sample microbes randomly from parents and/or from the environment. Additionally, the environmental pool of available microbes was constituted by fixed and persistent microbial OTUs and by contributions from host individuals in the preceding generation. In this paper, we extend our neutral models to allow selection to operate on both hosts and microbes. We do this by constructing a phenome for each microbial OTU consisting of a sample of traits that influence host and microbial fitnesses independently. Microbial traits can influence the fitness of hosts ("host selection") and the fitness of microbes ("trait-mediated microbial selection"). Additionally, the fitness effects of traits on microbes can be modified by their hosts ("host-mediated microbial selection"). We simulate the effects of these three types of selection, individually or in combination, on microbiome diversities and the fitnesses of hosts and microbes over several thousand generations of hosts. We show that microbiome diversity is strongly influenced by selection acting on microbes. Selection acting on hosts only influences microbiome diversity when there is near-complete direct or indirect parental contribution to the microbiomes of offspring. Unsurprisingly, microbial fitness increases under microbial selection. Interestingly, when host selection operates, host fitness only increases under two conditions: (1) when there is a strong parental contribution to microbial communities or (2) in the absence of a strong parental contribution, when host-mediated selection acts on microbes concomitantly. We present a computational framework that integrates different selective processes acting on the evolution of microbiomes. Our framework demonstrates that selection acting on microbes can have a strong effect on microbial diversities and fitnesses, whereas selection on hosts can have weaker outcomes.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 162 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 42 26%
Student > Ph. D. Student 32 20%
Student > Master 21 13%
Student > Bachelor 16 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 3%
Other 18 11%
Unknown 28 17%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 68 42%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 23 14%
Immunology and Microbiology 9 6%
Environmental Science 8 5%
Engineering 3 2%
Other 13 8%
Unknown 38 23%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 26. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 May 2018.
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