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The processes by which organic life is consumed and reborn in a complex ecosystem were investigated through a multiomics approach applied to the tripartite Xenorhabdus bacterium- Steinernema nematode- Galleria insect symbiosis. Trophic analyses demonstrate the primary consumers of the insect are the bacteria, and the nematode in turn consumes the bacteria.

Community-level metabolomics approaches are increasingly used to characterize natural microbial populations. These approaches typically depend upon temporal snapshots from which the status and function of communities are often inferred.