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Biogeography and environmental conditions shape bacteriophage-bacteria networks across the human microbiome.

ABSTRACT: Viruses and bacteria are critical components of the human microbiome and play important roles in health and disease. Most previous work has relied on studying bacteria and viruses independently, thereby reducing them to two separate communities. Such approaches are unable to capture how these microbial communities interact, such as through processes that maintain community robustness or allow phage-host populations to co-evolve. We implemented a network-based analytical approach to describe phage-bacteria network diversity throughout the human body. We built these community networks using a machine learning algorithm to predict which phages could infect which bacteria in a given microbiome. Our algorithm was applied to paired viral and bacterial metagenomic sequence sets from three previously published human cohorts. We organized the predicted interactions into networks that allowed us to evaluate phage-bacteria connectedness across the human body. We observed evidence that gut and skin network structures were person-specific and not conserved among cohabitating family members. High-fat diets appeared to be associated with less connected networks. Network structure differed between skin sites, with those exposed to the external environment being less connected and likely more susceptible to network degradation by microbial extinction events. This study quantified and contrasted the diversity of virome-microbiome networks across the human body and illustrated how environmental factors may influence phage-bacteria interactive dynamics. This work provides a baseline for future studies to better understand system perturbations, such as disease states, through ecological networks.

SUBMITTER: Hannigan GD

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5927471 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Biogeography and environmental conditions shape bacteriophage-bacteria networks across the human microbiome.

Hannigan Geoffrey D GD Duhaime Melissa B MB Koutra Danai D Schloss Patrick D PD

PLoS computational biology 20180418 4

Viruses and bacteria are critical components of the human microbiome and play important roles in health and disease. Most previous work has relied on studying bacteria and viruses independently, thereby reducing them to two separate communities. Such approaches are unable to capture how these microbial communities interact, such as through processes that maintain community robustness or allow phage-host populations to co-evolve. We implemented a network-based analytical approach to describe phag ...[more]

PMID: 29668682

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Biogeography and environmental conditions shape bacteriophage-bacteria networks across the human microbiome.

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