Species Identity Dominates over Environment in Driving Bacterial Community Assembly in Wild Invasive Leaf Miners
Yu‐Xi Zhu, Ya‐Wen Chang, Tao Wen, Run Yang, Yucheng Wang, Xinyu Wang, Ming‐Xing Lu, Yu‐Zhou Du
Abstract
The invasion of foreign species, including leaf miners, is a major threat to world biota. Host-associated microbiota may facilitate host adaption and expansion in a variety of ways. Thus, understanding the processes that drive leaf miner microbiota assembly is imperative for better management of invasive species. However, how microbial communities assemble during the leaf miner invasions and how predictable the processes remain unexplored. This work quantitatively deciphers the relative importance of deterministic process and stochastic process in governing the assembly of four leaf miner microbiotas and identifies potential sources of leaf miner-colonizing microbes from the soil-plant-leaf miner continuum. Our study provides new insights into the mechanisms underlying the drive of leaf miner microbiota assembly.