Article ; Online: Assembly archetypes in ecological communities.
Journal of the Royal Society, Interface
2023 Volume 20, Issue 208, Page(s) 20230349
Abstract: An instrumental discovery in comparative and developmental biology is the existence of assembly archetypes that synthesize the vast diversity of organisms' body plans-from legs and wings to human arms-into simple, interpretable and general design ... ...
Abstract | An instrumental discovery in comparative and developmental biology is the existence of assembly archetypes that synthesize the vast diversity of organisms' body plans-from legs and wings to human arms-into simple, interpretable and general design principles. Here, we combine a novel mathematical formalism based on category theory with experimental data to show that similar 'assembly archetypes' exist at the larger organization scale of ecological communities when assembling a species pool across diverse environmental contexts, particularly when species interactions are highly structured. We applied our formalism to clinical data discovering two assembly archetypes that differentiate between healthy and unhealthy human gut microbiota. The concept of assembly archetypes and the methods to synthesize them can pave the way to discovering the general assembly principles of the ecological communities we observe in nature. |
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MeSH term(s) | Animals ; Humans ; Biota ; Gastrointestinal Microbiome |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2023-11-29 |
Publishing country | England |
Document type | Journal Article ; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
ZDB-ID | 2156283-0 |
ISSN | 1742-5662 ; 1742-5689 |
ISSN (online) | 1742-5662 |
ISSN | 1742-5689 |
DOI | 10.1098/rsif.2023.0349 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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