Publication Date:
2012-04-12
Description:
Genetic exchange is common among bacteria, but its effect on population diversity during ecological differentiation remains controversial. A fundamental question is whether advantageous mutations lead to selection of clonal genomes or, as in sexual eukaryotes, sweep through populations on their own. Here, we show that in two recently diverged populations of ocean bacteria, ecological differentiation has occurred akin to a sexual mechanism: A few genome regions have swept through subpopulations in a habitat-specific manner, accompanied by gradual separation of gene pools as evidenced by increased habitat specificity of the most recent recombinations. These findings reconcile previous, seemingly contradictory empirical observations of the genetic structure of bacterial populations and point to a more unified process of differentiation in bacteria and sexual eukaryotes than previously thought.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3337212/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3337212/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Shapiro, B Jesse -- Friedman, Jonathan -- Cordero, Otto X -- Preheim, Sarah P -- Timberlake, Sonia C -- Szabo, Gitta -- Polz, Martin F -- Alm, Eric J -- U54 GM088558/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- U54 GM088558-02/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Apr 6;336(6077):48-51. doi: 10.1126/science.1218198.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Program in Computational and Systems Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22491847" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Chromosomes, Bacterial/genetics
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*Ecosystem
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*Evolution, Molecular
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Gene Flow
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Gene Transfer, Horizontal
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Genes, Bacterial
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Genetic Variation
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*Genome, Bacterial
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Models, Genetic
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Mutation
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Oceans and Seas
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Phylogeny
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Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
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*Recombination, Genetic
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Seawater/*microbiology
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*Selection, Genetic
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Vibrio/classification/*genetics
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
