Gut microbe Lactiplantibacillus plantarum undergoes different evolutionary trajectories between insects and mammals
Abstract
Animals form complex symbiotic associations with their gut microbes, whose evolution is determined by an intricate network of host and environmental factors. In many insects, such as Drosophila melanogaster, the microbiome is flexible, environmentally determined, and less diverse than in mammals. In contrast, mammals maintain complex multispecies consortia that are able to colonize and persist in the gastrointestinal tract. Understanding the evolutionary and ecological dynamics of gut microbes in different hosts is challenging. This requires disentangling the ecological factors of selection, determining the timescales over which evolution occurs, and elucidating the architecture of such evolutionary patterns.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Dec 27, 2022
- Source ID
- 10.1186/s12915-022-01477-y
Entities
People
- Anna Jelinkova
- Dagmar Srutkova
- Elisa Maritan
- Isaac Gifford
- Jeffrey E Barrick
- Maria Elena Martino
- Marialaura Gallo
- Martin Schwarzer
- Nuno F. Silva-soares
- Oldrich Benada
- Olga Kofronova
- Tomas Hudcovic
Organizations
- Army Research Office
- Ministry of Education, Universities and Research
- Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
- National Science Foundation
- Robert A. Welch Foundation
- University of Padua