Host Immunity Alters Community Ecology and Stability of the Microbiome in a Caenorhabditis elegans Model

Abstract

microbiome model to demonstrate how genetic differences in innate immunity alter microbiome composition, diversity, and stability by changing the ecological processes that shape these communities. These results provide insight into the role of host genetics in controlling the ecology of the host-associated microbiota, resulting in differences in community composition, successional trajectories, and response to perturbation.

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