Halite endoliths in the Atacama Desert represent one of the most extreme ecosystems on
Earth. Cultivation‐independent methods were used to examine the functional adaptations of …

A new approach to rapid, genome-wide identification and ranking of horizontal transfer
candidate proteins is presented. The method is quantitative, reproducible, and …

The endpoint of speciation has been viewed as complete isolation and the absence of gene
flow between species. If the influx of genes from another species is maladaptive because …

Many glycans show remarkably discontinuous distribution across evolutionary lineages.
These differences play major roles when organisms belonging to different lineages interact …

Background Comparative genomics is a powerful approach for studying variation in
physiological traits as well as the evolution and ecology of microorganisms. Recent …

Marine microorganisms contribute markedly to global biomass and ecosystem function.
They include a diverse collection of organisms differing in cell size and in evolutionary …

Introduction: Traditionally, cultivable bacteria isolated from infected root canals have been
identified by phenotype‐based methods. Because 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene …

Highlights•Prokaryotic populations are composed of multiple and diverse clonal
lineages.•These lineages carry different flexible gene pools, many collected in genomic …

Next-generation DNA sequencing technologies can generate unprecedented amounts of
genomic data, even for non-model organisms. Here we describe how these new …

Prophage loci often remain under-annotated or even unrecognized in prokaryotic genome
sequencing projects. A PHP application, Prophage Finder, has been developed and …