A trait-based framework to identify microbial keystone taxa for microbiome engineering

Pamela Espíndola-Hernández; Samiran Banerjee; Abdulkabir O. Abdulmalik; Diana Andrade-Linares; Germana Baldi; Gabriele Berg; Francis Q. Brearley; Cecilia G. Flocco; Luisa Galgani; Lina Gegeckienė; Silvia Gschwendtner; Tim Hensen; Tanja Kostic; Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro; Lisa Maier; Anna Marciniak; Juliette Ohan; Jörg Overmann; Teresa Rito; Matthew Ryan; Stefanie Schulz; Selma Vieira; Michael Schloter

doi:10.1016/j.crsus.2025.100615

A trait-based framework to identify microbial keystone taxa for microbiome engineering

Pamela Espíndola-Hernández
, Samiran Banerjee
, Abdulkabir O. Abdulmalik
, Diana Andrade-Linares
, Germana Baldi
, Gabriele Berg
, Francis Q. Brearley
, Cecilia G. Flocco
, Luisa Galgani
, Lina Gegeckienė
, Silvia Gschwendtner
, Tim Hensen
, Tanja Kostic
, Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro
, Lisa Maier
, Anna Marciniak
, Juliette Ohan
, Jörg Overmann
, Teresa Rito
, Matthew Ryan

Stefanie Schulz, Selma Vieira, Michael Schloter

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Helmholtz Munich
North Dakota State University
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
Graz University of Technology
Manchester Metropolitan University
Leibniz-Institut DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures GmbH
University of Siena
Vilnius University
University of Galway
Imperial College London
University of Tübingen
Center for Cancer Prevention and Epidemiology, Poznan
University of Minho
CABI Genetic Resources Collection

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Original language	English
Journal	Cell Reports Sustainability
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsus.2025.100615
Publication status	Published - Mar 2026

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Espíndola-Hernández, P., Banerjee, S., Abdulmalik, A. O., Andrade-Linares, D., Baldi, G., Berg, G., Brearley, F. Q., Flocco, C. G., Galgani, L., Gegeckienė, L., Gschwendtner, S., Hensen, T., Kostic, T., Ledesma-Amaro, R., Maier, L., Marciniak, A., Ohan, J., Overmann, J., Rito, T., ... Schloter, M. (2026). A trait-based framework to identify microbial keystone taxa for microbiome engineering. Cell Reports Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsus.2025.100615

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