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

Geoffrey D Hannigan, Melissa B Duhaime, Danai Koutra, View ORCID ProfilePatrick D Schloss
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/144642
Geoffrey D Hannigan
1Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, USA
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Melissa B Duhaime
2Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, USA
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Danai Koutra
3Department of Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, USA
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Patrick D Schloss
1Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, USA
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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.

Author Summary The human microbiome, the collection of microbial communities that colonize the human body, is a crucial component to health and disease. Two major components to the human microbiome are the bacterial and viral communities. These communities have primarily been studied separately using metrics of community composition and diversity. These approaches have failed to capture the complex dynamics of interacting bacteria and phage communities, which frequently share genetic information and work together to maintain ecosystem homestatsis (e.g. kill-the-winner dynamics). Removal of bacteria or phage can disrupt or even collapse those ecosystems. Relationship-based network approaches allow us to capture this interaction information. Using this network-based approach with three independent human cohorts, we were able to present an initial understanding of how phage-bacteria networks differ throughout the human body, so as to provide a baseline for future studies of how and why microbiome networks differ in disease states.

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Biogeography & environmental conditions shape bacteriophage-bacteria networks across the human microbiome
Geoffrey D Hannigan, Melissa B Duhaime, Danai Koutra, Patrick D Schloss
bioRxiv 144642; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/144642
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Biogeography & environmental conditions shape bacteriophage-bacteria networks across the human microbiome
Geoffrey D Hannigan, Melissa B Duhaime, Danai Koutra, Patrick D Schloss
bioRxiv 144642; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/144642

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