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dc.contributor.authorBittleston, Leonora S.
dc.contributor.authorGralka, Matti
dc.contributor.authorLeventhal, Gabriel Etan
dc.contributor.authorMizrahi, Itzhak
dc.contributor.authorCordero Sanchez, Otto X.
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-02T16:50:23Z
dc.date.available2020-06-02T16:50:23Z
dc.date.issued2020-03
dc.identifier.issn2041-1723
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/125613
dc.description.abstractNiche construction through interspecific interactions can condition future community states on past ones. However, the extent to which such history dependency can steer communities towards functionally different states remains a subject of active debate. Using bacterial communities collected from wild pitchers of the carnivorous pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea, we test the effects of history on composition and function across communities assembled in synthetic pitcher plant microcosms. We find that the diversity of assembled communities is determined by the diversity of the system at early, pre-assembly stages. Species composition is also contingent on early community states, not only because of differences in the species pool, but also because the same species have different dynamics in different community contexts. Importantly, compositional differences are proportional to differences in function, as profiles of resource use are strongly correlated with composition, despite convergence in respiration rates. Early differences in community structure can thus propagate to mature communities, conditioning their functional repertoire.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipNSF-BSF (grant no. DEB 1655983)en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipEuropean Research Council (grant no. 640384)en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipJames S. McDonnell Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (no. 220020477)en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipSimons Foundation Award (no. 599207)en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipHuman Frontiers Science Program (grant no. LT000643/2016-L)en_US
dc.publisherNPGen_US
dc.relation.isversionof10.1038/s41467-020-15169-0en_US
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licenseen_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_US
dc.sourceNatureen_US
dc.titleContext-dependent dynamics lead to the assembly of functionally distinct pitcher-plant microbiomesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.citationBittleston, Leonora S., et al., "Context-dependent dynamics lead to the assembly of functionally distinct pitcher-plant microbiomes." Nature Communications 11 (2020): no. 1440 doi 10.1038/s41467-020-15169-0 ©2020 Author(s)en_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineeringen_US
dc.relation.journalNature Communicationsen_US
dc.eprint.versionFinal published versionen_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticleen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerRevieweden_US
dspace.date.submission2020-05-21T15:25:40Z
mit.journal.volume11en_US
mit.licensePUBLISHER_CC
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