Nestedness across biological scales
dc.contributor.author | Cantor, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Pires, MM | |
dc.contributor.author | Marquitti, FMD | |
dc.contributor.author | Raimundo, RLG | |
dc.contributor.author | Sebastián-González, E | |
dc.contributor.author | Coltri, PP | |
dc.contributor.author | Perez, SI | |
dc.contributor.author | Barneche, DR | |
dc.contributor.author | Brandt, DYC | |
dc.contributor.author | Nunes, K | |
dc.contributor.author | Daura-Jorge, FG | |
dc.contributor.author | Floeter, SR | |
dc.contributor.author | Guimarães, PRJ | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-05T09:49:07Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-02-06 | |
dc.description.abstract | Biological networks pervade nature. They describe systems throughout all levels of biological organization, from molecules regulating metabolism to species interactions that shape ecosystem dynamics. The network thinking revealed recurrent organizational patterns in complex biological systems, such as the formation of semi-independent groups of connected elements (modularity) and non-random distributions of interactions among elements. Other structural patterns, such as nestedness, have been primarily assessed in ecological networks formed by two non-overlapping sets of elements; information on its occurrence on other levels of organization is lacking. Nestedness occurs when interactions of less connected elements form proper subsets of the interactions of more connected elements. Only recently these properties began to be appreciated in one-mode networks (where all elements can interact) which describe a much wider variety of biological phenomena. Here, we compute nestedness in a diverse collection of one-mode networked systems from six different levels of biological organization depicting gene and protein interactions, complex phenotypes, animal societies, metapopulations, food webs and vertebrate metacommunities. Our findings suggest that nestedness emerge independently of interaction type or biological scale and reveal that disparate systems can share nested organization features characterized by inclusive subsets of interacting elements with decreasing connectedness. We primarily explore the implications of a nested structure for each of these studied systems, then theorize on how nested networks are assembled. We hypothesize that nestedness emerges across scales due to processes that, although system-dependent, may share a general compromise between two features: specificity (the number of interactions the elements of the system can have) and affinity (how these elements can be connected to each other). Our findings suggesting occurrence of nestedness throughout biological scales can stimulate the debate on how pervasive nestedness may be in nature, while the theoretical emergent principles can aid further research on commonalities of biological networks. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | São Paulo Research Foundation | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Killam Trusts | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | The Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education within the Ministry of Education of Brazil | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação do Estado de Santa Catarina | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 12 (2), article e0171691 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1371/journal.pone.0171691 | |
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dc.identifier.grantnumber | 2013/22016-6 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 2011/11346-0 | en_GB |
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dc.identifier.grantnumber | 2012/09950-9 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 2012/22796-9 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 2013/02738-7 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 2009/54422-8 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 6308/2011-8 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | TR2012000295 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/36270 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Public Library of Science | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2017 Cantor et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | en_GB |
dc.title | Nestedness across biological scales | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2019-03-05T09:49:07Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1932-6203 | |
exeter.article-number | 2 | en_GB |
dc.description | This is the final published version. Available from Public Library of Science via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.description | All data sets are available for download in the repository https:// bitbucket.org/maucantor/unodf_analyses/src. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | PLoS ONE | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2017-01-23 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2017-01-23 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2019-03-05T09:38:30Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2019-03-05T09:49:09Z | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |
refterms.depositException | publishedGoldOA |
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