Keystone taxa as drivers of microbiome structure and functioning

Samiran Banerjee; Klaus Schlaeppi; Marcel G.A. van der Heijden

doi:10.1038/s41579-018-0024-1

Keystone taxa as drivers of microbiome structure and functioning

Samiran Banerjee^*, Klaus Schlaeppi, Marcel G.A. van der Heijden

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Abstract

Microorganisms have a pivotal role in the functioning of ecosystems. Recent studies have shown that microbial communities harbour keystone taxa, which drive community composition and function irrespective of their abundance. In this Opinion article, we propose a definition of keystone taxa in microbial ecology and summarize over 200 microbial keystone taxa that have been identified in soil, plant and marine ecosystems, as well as in the human microbiome. We explore the importance of keystone taxa and keystone guilds for microbiome structure and functioning and discuss the factors that determine their distribution and activities.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	567-576
Number of pages	10
Journal	Nature Reviews Microbiology
Volume	16
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41579-018-0024-1
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2018

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The authors thank the referees, whose constructive comments and insightful suggestions greatly improved the quality of the manuscript. They also thank U. Kaufmann for help with a figure and C. Stanley for proofreading the manuscript. Work in the author’s laboratory was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (Grant No. 31003A_166079 awarded to M.G.A.v.d.H.).

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