| 项目编号: | 1556649
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| 项目名称: | Testing community ecology theory as a framework for predicting co-infection: host resource ratios and viral pathogens |
| 作者: | Eric Seabloom
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| 承担单位: | University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
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| 批准年: | 2016
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| 开始日期: | 2016-05-15
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| 结束日期: | 2019-04-30
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| 资助金额: | 654475
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| 资助来源: | US-NSF
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| 项目类别: | Standard Grant
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| 国家: | US
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 特色学科分类: | Biological Sciences - Environmental Biology
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| 英文关键词: | resource-ratio
; resource-ratio model
; host
; microbial community
; microbe
; condition
; composition
; resource-ratio theory
; host plant
; microscopic organism
; classic theory
; host health
; host defence
; host well-being
; plant host
; host nutrient content
; complex natural community
; host biology
; different resource
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| 英文摘要: | A vast array of microbes (microscopic organisms), such as fungi, bacteria, and viruses, live inside every animal and plant on Earth. These microbial communities influence the growth, reproduction, and death rates of their hosts. Not all microbes are detrimental; the effects of microbes span the full range from causing deadly disease to being essential for host health. Despite the importance of microbial diversity to host well-being, we have little ability to predict the diversity and composition of microbial communities within hosts. This project will address this knowledge gap by testing whether a mathematical model developed originally for plants and algae ('resource-ratio theory') can be used to understand what determines the diversity and composition of the microbes that inhabit plant hosts. The data from these experiments will be used to understand when the predictions of the resource-ratio model apply to microbial communities and how it can be modified to make better predictions. A deeper understanding of the controls on microbial diversity will lead to more accurate predictions about microbes within hosts, which may speed advances in medicine and agriculture.
The researchers will grow plants in conditions that vary in the supply of critical soil nutrients, and they will manipulate and measure the abundance and diversity of a group of plant viruses that cause one of the most widespread and devastating diseases of cereal crops worldwide (barley and cereal yellow dwarf viruses; B/CYDV's). Five B/CYD virus species will be used to test the resource-ratio model in a series of growth-chamber and field experiments. In each experiment, they will create a wide range of conditions experienced by the viruses by growing host plants under different resource (nitrogen and phosphorus) supply rates. The researchers will measure viral abundance (titer) within individuals, using quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) for each virus grown alone and in mixture. They will use viral abundance measurements through time to estimate virus population growth rates. The resource-ratio model will be tested with lab experiments, in order to predict viral diversity in each host. The resource-ratio model will also be modified to include elements of the virus and host biology that could cause deviations from the classic theory, such as host defences against infection by microbes and microbial effects on host nutrient content. To test the relevance of this model to more complex natural communities, the researchers will collect data on B/CYDV titers in field experiments replicated at a local field site and in 30 grasslands spanning 5 continents. |
| 资源类型: | 项目
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/92377
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| Appears in Collections: | 全球变化的国际研究计划
科学计划与规划
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Eric Seabloom. Testing community ecology theory as a framework for predicting co-infection: host resource ratios and viral pathogens. 2016-01-01.
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