Microbial seed banks: the ecological and evolutionary implications of dormancy

By J. Lennon, Stuart E. Jones. Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2011

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The bacterial cytoplasm has glass-like properties and is fluidized by metabolic activity (2013, background): “Dormancy is a survival strategy that bacteria in both environmental and clinical settings use to respond to stress such as starvation, antibiotic exposure, and high cell density (Lennon and Jones, 2011).”
Ecology and exploration of the rare biosphere (2015, background): “The proportion of viable microorgan isms with greatly reduced metabolic activity is variable, ranging from ~20% in hostassociated environments, such as the human gut or the rumen, to potentially the majority of microorganisms in environments such as soil 64 .”
Microbes as Engines of Ecosystem Function: When Does Community Structure Enhance Predictions of Ecosystem Processes? (2016, background): “…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 point…”
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).”
Forest microbiome: diversity, complexity and dynamics. (2016, background): “(4) difficulty in identifying active microbes and their functions Many microbes may be inactive or dormant in the environment (Lennon and Jones 2011).”
Microbiomes in light of traits: A phylogenetic perspective (2015, background): “Thus, the ability to enter dormancy is a trait that may influence a microorganism’s response to environmental stresses, such as fire and drought (47).”
Aquatic invasive species: challenges for the future (2015, background): “Most of those also retain a high potential for long-range dispersal given their minute sizes, high densities of individuals, and ability to rapidly form resting stages (Fontaneto, 2011; Lennon & Jones, 2011) .”
Viruses in soil: Nano-scale undead drivers of microbial life, biogeochemical turnover and ecosystem functions (2018, background): “(2) The very low proportion of active microbial cells in soil (Blagodatskaya and Kuzyakov, 2013; Lennon and Jones, 2011) and absence of the switch from lysogenic to lytic cycle in dormant cells means only the small active part has high C and energy costs.”