Interactions with a Complex Microbiota Mediate a Trade-Off between the Host Development Rate and Heat Stress Resistance

Animals and plants host diverse communities of microorganisms, and these microbiotas have been shown to influence host life history traits. Much has been said about the benefits that host-associated microbiotas bestow on the host. However, life history traits often demonstrate tradeoffs among one another. Raising Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes in compost microcosms emulating their natural environment, we examined how complex microbiotas affect host life history traits. We show that soil microbes usually increase the host development rate but decrease host resistance to heat stress, suggesting that interactions with complex microbiotas may mediate a tradeoff between host development and stress resistance. What element in these interactions is responsible for these effects is yet unknown, but experiments with live versus dead bacteria suggest that such effects may depend on bacterially provided signals.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:8

Enthalten in:

Microorganisms - 8(2020), 11 vom: 13. Nov.

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Slowinski, Samuel [VerfasserIn]
Ramirez, Isabella [VerfasserIn]
Narayan, Vivek [VerfasserIn]
Somayaji, Medha [VerfasserIn]
Para, Maya [VerfasserIn]
Pi, Sarah [VerfasserIn]
Jadeja, Niharika [VerfasserIn]
Karimzadegan, Siavash [VerfasserIn]
Pees, Barbara [VerfasserIn]
Shapira, Michael [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

C. elegans
Development
Heat stress
Journal Article
Life-history traits
Microbiome
Microbiota
Tradeoffs

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Date Revised 05.10.2021

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/microorganisms8111781

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM317701657