Resource diversity and supply drive colonization resistance.
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| Titel: | Resource diversity and supply drive colonization resistance. |
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| Autoren: | Rappaport, Ethan S., Mirollo, Renato, Momeni, Babak |
| Quelle: | PLoS Computational Biology; 11/5/2025, Vol. 21 Issue 11, p1-16, 16p |
| Schlagwörter: | COLONIZATION (Ecology), RESOURCE availability (Ecology), MICROBIOTA, RESOURCE allocation, SYNTROPHISM, SPECIES diversity, PATHOGENIC microorganisms |
| Abstract: | The human microbiota plays a key role in resisting the colonization of pathogenic microbes, a process known as colonization resistance. However, there is a need to better understand the mechanisms by which colonization of invaders is blocked. Environmental resource supply and resource diversity are essential factors in forming these communities but testing how the environment affects resistance in natural communities is challenging. Here we use a consumer-resource model and computational invasion simulations to investigate how environmental resource diversity and supply affect the richness-resistance relationship, overall colonization resistance, and cross-feeding dynamics. We find a non-monotonic trend between species richness and resistance, shaped by environmental characteristics. Our results show that colonization resistance is negatively correlated with both resource supply and resource diversity except when resource supply is limited. Lastly, we observe that cross-feeding weakens colonization resistance by increasing the diversity of available resources, but this trend disappears with limited resource supply. This work provides insights about colonization resistance in microbial communities of consumers, resources, and resource conversion and exchange. Author summary: Resident microbial communities, such as those inhabiting different parts of our body, can resist colonization by other microbes, a property called colonization resistance. Colonization resistance is important for protecting us from pathogens, bringing up the need to better understand the mechanisms that affect it. Here we use a consumer-resource model to investigate how resources supplied in the environment can influence invasion outcomes including colonization resistance. We implement a computational invasion assay and simulate many instances of resident communities encountering invaders to infer how different parameters such as the supply of resources or exchange of metabolites between species affect colonization resistance. We find that colonization resistance is negatively correlated with both resource supply and resource diversity, except when resource supply is limited. We also show that cross-feeding between species weakens colonization resistance by increasing the diversity of available resources, but this trend disappears with limited resource supply. Collectively, our work highlights the impact of resources in shaping colonization resistance, offering useful insights that can guide future efforts to control colonization resistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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