{"id":168835,"date":"2023-08-01T10:28:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T15:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/bacterial-fungal-interactions-promote-parallel-evolution-of-global-transcriptional-regulators-in-a-widespread-staphylococcus-species"},"modified":"2023-08-01T10:28:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T15:28:35","slug":"bacterial-fungal-interactions-promote-parallel-evolution-of-global-transcriptional-regulators-in-a-widespread-staphylococcus-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/bacterial-fungal-interactions-promote-parallel-evolution-of-global-transcriptional-regulators-in-a-widespread-staphylococcus-species","title":{"rendered":"Bacterial\u2013fungal interactions promote parallel evolution of global transcriptional regulators in a widespread Staphylococcus species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bacterial-fungal-interactions-promote-parallel-evolution-of-global-transcriptional-regulators-in-a-widespread-staphylococcus-species2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Experimental studies of microbial evolution have largely focused on monocultures of model organisms, but most microbes live in communities where interactions with other species may impact rates and modes of evolution. Using the cheese rind model microbial community, we determined how species interactions shape the evolution of the widespread food-and animal-associated bacterium <i><i>Staphylococcus<\/i> xylosus<\/i>. We evolved <i>S. xylosus<\/i> for 450 generations alone or in co-culture with one of three microbes: the yeast <i><i>Debaryomyces<\/i> hansenii<\/i>, the bacterium <i>Brevibacterium aurantiacum<\/i>, and the mold <i><i>Penicillium<\/i> <i>solitum<\/i><\/i>. We used the frequency of colony morphology mutants (pigment and colony texture phenotypes) and whole-genome sequencing of isolates to quantify phenotypic and genomic evolution. The yeast <i>D. hansenii<\/i> strongly promoted diversification of S. xylosus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experimental studies of microbial evolution have largely focused on monocultures of model organisms, but most microbes live in communities where interactions with other species may impact rates and modes of evolution. Using the cheese rind model microbial community, we determined how species interactions shape the evolution of the widespread food-and animal-associated bacterium Staphylococcus xylosus. We [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}