Common principles and best practices for engineering microbiomes

CE Lawson, WR Harcombe, R Hatzenpichler… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Despite broad scientific interest in harnessing the power of Earth's microbiomes, knowledge
gaps hinder their efficient use for addressing urgent societal and environmental challenges …

The emergence of adaptive laboratory evolution as an efficient tool for biological discovery and industrial biotechnology

TE Sandberg, MJ Salazar, LL Weng, BO Palsson… - Metabolic …, 2019 - Elsevier
Harnessing the process of natural selection to obtain and understand new microbial
phenotypes has become increasingly possible due to advances in culturing techniques …

The dynamics of molecular evolution over 60,000 generations

BH Good, MJ McDonald, JE Barrick, RE Lenski… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The outcomes of evolution are determined by a stochastic dynamical process that governs
how mutations arise and spread through a population. However, it is difficult to observe …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptive evolution within gut microbiomes of healthy people

S Zhao, TD Lieberman, M Poyet, KM Kauffman… - Cell host & …, 2019 - cell.com
Natural selection shapes bacterial evolution in all environments. However, the extent to
which commensal bacteria diversify and adapt within the human gut remains unclear. Here …

Identification of Mutations in Laboratory-Evolved Microbes from Next-Generation Sequencing Data Using breseq

DE Deatherage, JE Barrick - Engineering and analyzing multicellular …, 2014 - Springer
Next-generation DNA sequencing (NGS) can be used to reconstruct eco-evolutionary
population dynamics and to identify the genetic basis of adaptation in laboratory evolution …

GUIDANCE2: accurate detection of unreliable alignment regions accounting for the uncertainty of multiple parameters

I Sela, H Ashkenazy, K Katoh, T Pupko - Nucleic acids research, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Inference of multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) is a critical part of phylogenetic and
comparative genomics studies. However, from the same set of sequences different MSAs …

The unexhausted potential of E. coli

ZD Blount - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
E. coli's hardiness, versatility, broad palate and ease of handling have made it the most
intensively studied and best understood organism on the planet. However, research on E …

Tempo and mode of genome evolution in a 50,000-generation experiment

O Tenaillon, JE Barrick, N Ribeck, DE Deatherage… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Adaptation by natural selection depends on the rates, effects and interactions of many
mutations, making it difficult to determine what proportion of mutations in an evolving lineage …

Within-host evolution of bacterial pathogens

X Didelot, AS Walker, TE Peto, DW Crook… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
Whole-genome sequencing has opened the way for investigating the dynamics and
genomic evolution of bacterial pathogens during the colonization and infection of humans …

Genomics for monitoring and understanding species responses to global climate change

L Bernatchez, AL Ferchaud, CS Berger… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
All life forms across the globe are experiencing drastic changes in environmental conditions
as a result of global climate change. These environmental changes are happening rapidly …