Hierarchical eco-evo dynamics mediated by the gut microbiome

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• It is a special case of eco-evo dynamics that involves interactions with ecologically distinct groups of organisms.

• The microbiome of the intestinal ecosystem is a community that resides within a host that also is part of its own community and ecosystem.

• there is much potential for hierarchical eco-evo feedback loops between the eco-evo system of the microbiome and that of the host community

• This implies that ecological, evolutionary, and eco-evo dynamics in microbiomes can impact ecological, evolutionary, and eco-evo dynamics at the level of the host population, community, and ecosystem they are embedded in and vice versa.

• Figure 2Hierarchical feedback loops between eco-evolutionary (eco-evo) dynamics in the gut microbiome and in the host community.