In the marine environment, bivalve mollusks constitute habitats for bacteria of the
Vibrionaceae family. Vibrios belong to the microbiota of healthy oysters and mussels, which …

Symbiotic associations between bacteria and eukaryotes exhibit a range of transmission
strategies. The rates and distributions of transmission modes have not been thoroughly …

Gut microbiota are shaped by a combination of ecological and evolutionary forces. While the
ecological dynamics have been extensively studied, much less is known about how species …

Genetic diversity of closely related free-living microorganisms is widespread and underpins
ecosystem functioning, but most evolutionary theories predict that it destabilizes intimate …

Members of the gram-positive bacterial genus Staphylococcus have historically been
classified into coagulase-positive Staphylococcus (CoPS) and coagulase-negative …

Abstract The symbiont “Candidatus Aquarickettsia rohweri” infects a diversity of aquatic
hosts. In the threatened Caribbean coral, Acropora cervicornis, Aquarickettsia proliferates in …

The human gut microbiome harbors substantial ecological diversity at the species level as
well as at the strain level within species. In healthy hosts, species abundance fluctuations in …

How the ecological process of community assembly interacts with intra-species diversity and
evolutionary change is a longstanding question. Two contrasting hypotheses have been …

Bacterial symbionts bring a wealth of functions to the associations they participate in, but by
doing so, they endanger the genes and genomes underlying these abilities. When bacterial …

Symbiotic interactions between eukaryotes and prokaryotes are widespread in nature. Here
we offer a conceptual framework to study the evolutionary origins and ecological …