Dormancy contributes to the maintenance of microbial diversity

By Stuart E. Jones, J. Lennon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010

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Subfields: Ecology, Genetics, Molecular Biology

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Microbial seed banks: the ecological and evolutionary implications of dormancy (2011, methodology): “This combined rRNA–rDNA approach has been used to test theoretical predictions about microbial seed bank”
Microbes as Engines of Ecosystem Function: When Does Community Structure Enhance Predictions of Ecosystem Processes? (2016, background): “For instance, microorganisms can enter a state of lowered activity or dormancy in response to unfavorable environmental conditions (Jones and Lennon, 2010; Lennon and Jones, 2011), and research suggests that the percent of soil microbial communities catalyzing chemical reactions in soils at a given…”
Fundamentals of Microbial Community Resistance and Resilience (2012, background): “Dormancy is a bet-hedging strategy that allows organisms to enter a reduced state of metabolic activity (Jones and Lennon, 2010); see Lennon and Jones, 2011 for a recent review).”
Similar community assembly mechanisms underlie similar biogeography of rare and abundant bacteria in lakes on Yungui Plateau, China (2017, background): “These rare bacteria exhibit characteristic metabolic activities (Jones and Lennon 2010; Campbell et al. 2011), carry out particular metabolic functions important for the turnover of certain elements (Pester et al. 2010; Pedr os- Ali o 2012), and can be regarded as a propagule bank (Grime 1998).”
Ecology and exploration of the rare biosphere (2015, background): “Indeed, dormancy and related seed banks are strategies for responding to temporally variable environments, contributing to community resilience 52 .”
Unveiling the mysteries of phytoplankton life cycles: patterns and opportunities behind complexity (2011, background): “…a selective adaptation to the variable aquatic environment and allow partitioning the genotype in two different environments, the sediments and the water column, and in different seasons, thus favoring the maintenance of the high diversity of unicellular organisms (Jones and Lennon, 2010).”
The quality of organic matter shapes the functional biogeography of bacterioplankton across boreal freshwater ecosystems (2015, background): “…between composition and function (e.g. dormancy, lateral gene transfer, functional redundancy; Ochman et al., 2000; Allison & Martiny, 2008; Jones & Lennon, 2010), there is a clear need to go beyond a taxonomic characterization of communities and towards an exploration of the functional…”
Buried alive – germination of up to a century-old marine protist resting stages (2011, background): “Resting stages also aid dispersal and constitute a reservoir of genetic diversity, which increases the survival potential of the populations (Jones & Lennon 2010).”
Beyond the Venn diagram: the hunt for a core microbiome. (2012, background): “For instance, in an analysis of freshwater bacteria, members of rare OTUs were disproportionately physiologically active compared with common OTUs, as assessed by the level of 16S RNA gene transcripts (Jones and Lennon, 2010).”