Publication Date:
2016-09-23
Description:
Adaptive radiation by waves of gene transfer leads to fine-scale resource partitioning in marine microbes Nature Communications, Published online: 22 September 2016; doi:10.1038/ncomms12860 Adaptive radiations are well-known for animals and plants, but not for microbes. Here, Hehemann et al . show that there has been a recent adaptive radiation of bacteria in the Vibrionaceae to use different forms of alginate and that this radiation has been mediated by horizontal gene transfer.
Electronic ISSN:
2041-1723
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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