How do microbiota associated with an invasive seaweed vary across scales? Accepted Article - Sorbonne Université
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How do microbiota associated with an invasive seaweed vary across scales? Accepted Article

Abstract

Communities are shaped by scale dependent processes. To study the diversity and variation of microbial communities across scales, the invasive and widespread seaweed Agarophyton vermiculophyllum presents a unique opportunity. We characterized pro‐ and eukaryotic communities associated with this holobiont across its known distribution range, which stretches over the northern hemisphere. Our data reveal that community composition and diversity in the holobiont vary at local but also larger geographic scales. While processes acting at the local scale (i.e., within population) are the main structuring drivers of associated microbial communities, changes in community composition also depend on processes acting at larger geographic scales. Interestingly, the largest analyzed scale (i.e., native and nonnative ranges) explained variation in the prevalence of predicted functional groups, which could suggest a functional shift in microbiota occurred over the course of the invasion process. While high variability in microbiota at the local scale supports A. vermiculophyllum to be a generalist host, we also identified a number of core taxa. These geographically independent holobiont members imply that co‐introduction of specific microbiota may have additionally promoted the invasion process.
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hal-02612723 , version 1 (19-05-2020)

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Guido Bonthond, Till Bayer, Stacy A Krueger-Hadfield, Francisco Rafael Barboza, Masahiro Nakaoka, et al.. How do microbiota associated with an invasive seaweed vary across scales? Accepted Article. Molecular Ecology, 2020, ⟨10.1111/MEC.15470⟩. ⟨hal-02612723⟩
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