Diversity within species: interpreting strains in microbiomes

T Van Rossum, P Ferretti, OM Maistrenko… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Studying within-species variation has traditionally been limited to culturable bacterial
isolates and low-resolution microbial community fingerprinting. Metagenomic sequencing …

Microbial diversity and the genetic nature of microbial species

M Achtman, M Wagner - Nature reviews microbiology, 2008 - nature.com
The earth contains a huge number of largely uncharacterized Bacteria and Archaea.
Microbiologists are struggling to summarize their genetic diversity and classify them, which …

Bacteriophage genomics

GF Hatfull - Current opinion in microbiology, 2008 - Elsevier
The past three years have seen an escalation in the number of sequenced bacteriophage
genomes with more than 500 now in the NCBI phage database, representing a more than …

Genome sequencing of environmental Escherichia coli expands understanding of the ecology and speciation of the model bacterial species

C Luo, ST Walk, DM Gordon… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
Defining bacterial species remains a challenging problem even for the model bacterium
Escherichia coli and has major practical consequences for reliable diagnosis of infectious …

Resource partitioning and sympatric differentiation among closely related bacterioplankton

DE Hunt, LA David, D Gevers, SP Preheim, EJ Alm… - Science, 2008 - science.org
Identifying ecologically differentiated populations within complex microbial communities
remains challenging, yet is critical for interpreting the evolution and ecology of microbes in …

Origins of major archaeal clades correspond to gene acquisitions from bacteria

S Nelson-Sathi, FL Sousa, M Roettger… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The mechanisms that underlie the origin of major prokaryotic groups are poorly understood.
In principle, the origin of both species and higher taxa among prokaryotes should entail …

The bacterial species challenge: making sense of genetic and ecological diversity

C Fraser, EJ Alm, MF Polz, BG Spratt, WP Hanage - science, 2009 - science.org
The Bacteria and Archaea are the most genetically diverse superkingdoms of life, and
techniques for exploring that diversity are only just becoming widespread. Taxonomists …

[图书][B] The tangled tree: a radical new history of life

D Quammen - 2018 - books.google.com
In this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award,“our
greatest living chronicler of the natural world”(The New York Times), David Quammen …

Cryptic Lineages of the Genus Escherichia

ST Walk, EW Alm, DM Gordon, JL Ram… - Applied and …, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
Extended multilocus sequence typing (MLST) analysis of atypical Escherichia isolates was
used to identify five novel phylogenetic clades (CI to CV) among isolates from …

Horizontal gene transfer as a source of conflict and cooperation in prokaryotes

RJ Hall, FJ Whelan, JO McInerney, Y Ou… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is one of the most important processes in prokaryote
evolution. The sharing of DNA can spread neutral or beneficial genes, as well as genetic …