@article{0718e602fc48468790c86e83777dde4e,
title = "Phylogenetic organization in the assimilation of chemically distinct substrates by soil bacteria",
abstract = "Soils are among the most biodiverse habitats on earth and while the species composition of microbial communities can influence decomposition rates and pathways, the functional significance of many microbial species and phylogenetic groups remains unknown. If bacteria exhibit phylogenetic organization in their function, this could enable ecologically meaningful classification of bacterial clades. Here, we show non-random phylogenetic organization in the rates of relative carbon assimilation for both rapidly mineralized substrates (amino acids and glucose) assimilated by many microbial taxa and slowly mineralized substrates (lipids and cellulose) assimilated by relatively few microbial taxa. When mapped onto bacterial phylogeny using ancestral character estimation this phylogenetic organization enabled the identification of clades involved in the decomposition of specific soil organic matter substrates. Phylogenetic organization in substrate assimilation could provide a basis for predicting the functional attributes of uncharacterized microbial taxa and understanding the significance of microbial community composition for soil organic matter decomposition.",
author = "Chansotheary Dang and Walkup, {Jeth G.V.} and Hungate, {Bruce A.} and Franklin, {Rima B.} and Egbert Schwartz and Morrissey, {Ember M.}",
note = "Funding Information: We greatly appreciate assistance from members of the Morrissey's laboratory including Rene Miller, Logan Webb and Nathaniel Beck. Special thanks to Serita Frey and Mel Knorr for their help with site access and field sampling at Harvard Forest. This research was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology to Ember M. Morrissey (DEB-1645596) and the United States Department of Agriculture Hatch Program Project No. WVA00688 and WVA00695. Additional support for Bruce A. Hungate, Ember M. Morrissey and Egbert Schwartz was provided by the Department of Energy's Biological Systems Science Division, Program in Genomic Science (No. DE-SC0016207 and DE-SC0020172). Funding Information: We greatly appreciate assistance from members of the Morrissey's laboratory including Rene Miller, Logan Webb and Nathaniel Beck. Special thanks to Serita Frey and Mel Knorr for their help with site access and field sampling at Harvard Forest. This research was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Environmental Biology to Ember M. Morrissey (DEB‐1645596) and the United States Department of Agriculture Hatch Program Project No. WVA00688 and WVA00695. Additional support for Bruce A. Hungate, Ember M. Morrissey and Egbert Schwartz was provided by the Department of Energy's Biological Systems Science Division, Program in Genomic Science (No. DE‐SC0016207 and DE‐SC0020172). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 Society for Applied Microbiology and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.",
year = "2022",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1111/1462-2920.15843",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "24",
pages = "357--369",
journal = "Environmental microbiology",
issn = "1462-2912",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "1",
}