Microdiversity shapes the traits, niche space, and biogeography of microbial taxa

Global biogeography of Prochlorococcus genome diversity in the surface ocean

(2016) Alyssa G Kent et al.   ISME Journal

Niche partitioning and biogeography of high light adapted Prochlorococcus across taxonomic ranks in the North Pacific

(2016) Alyse A Larkin et al.   ISME Journal

Multi-omics analysis of niche specificity provides new insights into ecological adaptation in bacteria

(2016) Bo Zhu et al.   ISME Journal

Marine Bacterial and Archaeal Ion-Pumping Rhodopsins: Genetic Diversity, Physiology, and Ecology

(2016) Jarone Pinhassi et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Expanded Genetic Codes Create New Mutational Routes to Rifampicin Resistance inEscherichia coli

(2016) Michael J. Hammerling et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

(2016) Olivier Tenaillon et al.   NATURE

Delineating ecologically significant taxonomic units from global patterns of marine picocyanobacteria

(2016) Gregory K. Farrant et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Regulation of genetic flux between bacteria by restriction–modification systems

(2016) Pedro H. Oliveira et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Thermally adaptive tradeoffs in closely related marine bacterial strains

(2015) Cheuk-Man Yung et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microbiomes in light of traits: A phylogenetic perspective

(2015) J. B. H. Martiny et al.   SCIENCE

Black Queen evolution: the role of leakiness in structuring microbial communities

(2015) J. Jeffrey Morris   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Rates of Lateral Gene Transfer in Prokaryotes: High but Why?

(2015) Michiel Vos et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Genomic Heterogeneity and Ecological Speciation within One Subspecies of Bacillus subtilis

(2014) Sarah Kopac et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

COEXISTENCE OF EVOLVING BACTERIA STABILIZED BY A SHARED BLACK QUEEN FUNCTION

(2014) J. Jeffrey Morris et al.   EVOLUTION

Global biogeography ofStreptomycesantibiotic inhibition, resistance, and resource use

(2014) Daniel C. Schlatter et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

The Extent of Genome Flux and Its Role in the Differentiation of Bacterial Lineages

(2014) Reuben W. Nowell et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Connecting thermal physiology and latitudinal niche partitioning in marine Synechococcus

(2014) Justine Pittera et al.   ISME Journal

A single genus in the gut microbiome reflects host preference and specificity

(2014) A Murat Eren et al.   ISME Journal

Single-cell enabled comparative genomics of a deep ocean SAR11 bathytype

(2014) J Cameron Thrash et al.   ISME Journal

Comparative single-cell genomics reveals potential ecological niches for the freshwater acI Actinobacteria lineage

(2014) Trevor W Ghylin et al.   ISME Journal

Prochlorococcus: the structure and function of collective diversity

(2014) Steven J. Biller et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Transcriptome Sequencing Reveals the Virulence and Environmental Genetic Programs of Vibrio vulnificus Exposed to Host and Estuarine Conditions

(2014) Tiffany C. Williams et al.   PLoS One

Impact of ocean phytoplankton diversity on phosphate uptake

(2014) Michael W. Lomas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biogeographic patterns in ocean microbes emerge in a neutral agent-based model

(2014) F. L. Hellweger et al.   SCIENCE

Evolution of Escherichia coli rifampicin resistance in an antibiotic-free environment during thermal stress

(2013) Alejandra Rodríguez-Verdugo et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The interplay between microevolution and community structure in microbial populations

(2013) Siobhán O’Brien et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

Microdiversity of extracellular enzyme genes among sequenced prokaryotic genomes

(2013) Amy E Zimmerman et al.   ISME Journal

Phylogenetic beta diversity in bacterial assemblages across ecosystems: deterministic versus stochastic processes

(2013) Jianjun Wang et al.   ISME Journal

Speedy speciation in a bacterial microcosm: new species can arise as frequently as adaptations within a species

(2013) Alexander F Koeppel et al.   ISME Journal

Present and future global distributions of the marine Cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus

(2013) P. Flombaum et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Infinitely Many Genes Model for the Distributed Genome of Bacteria

(2012) Franz Baumdicker et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Stochastic and deterministic assembly processes in subsurface microbial communities

(2012) James C Stegen et al.   ISME Journal

Phylogenetic conservatism of functional traits in microorganisms

(2012) Adam C Martiny et al.   ISME Journal

Phytoplankton niches estimated from field data

(2012) Andrew J. Irwin et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Phycoerythrin evolution and diversification of spectral phenotype in marine Synechococcus and related picocyanobacteria

(2012) R. Craig Everroad et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Global biogeography of SAR11 marine bacteria

(2012) Mark V Brown et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

Pyrosequencing-Based Comparative Genome Analysis of Vibrio vulnificus Environmental Isolates

(2012) Shatavia S. Morrison et al.   PLoS One

Genomic Diversity of Escherichia Isolates from Diverse Habitats

(2012) Seungdae Oh et al.   PLoS One

The Molecular Diversity of Adaptive Convergence

(2012) O. Tenaillon et al.   SCIENCE

Population Genomics of Early Events in the Ecological Differentiation of Bacteria

(2012) B. J. Shapiro et al.   SCIENCE

The Black Queen Hypothesis: Evolution of Dependencies through Adaptive Gene Loss

(2012) J. J. Morris et al.   mBio

Selection-Driven Gene Loss in Bacteria

(2012) Sanna Koskiniemi et al.   PLoS Genetics

Diversity and Distribution of Marine Synechococcus: Multiple Gene Phylogenies for Consensus Classification and Development of qPCR Assays for Sensitive Measurement of Clades in the Ocean

(2012) Nathan A. Ahlgren et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Fine-Scale Distribution Patterns of Synechococcus Ecological Diversity in Microbial Mats of Mushroom Spring, Yellowstone National Park

(2011) Eric D. Becraft et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Ecological Significance of Microdiversity: Coexistence Among Casing Soil Bacterial Strains Through Allocation of Nutritional Resource

(2011) Devendra Kumar Choudhary et al.   INDIAN JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY

Potential for phosphite and phosphonate utilization by Prochlorococcus

(2011) Roi Feingersch et al.   ISME Journal

Ecological niche conservatism: a time-structured review of evidence

(2011) A. Townsend Peterson   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Dependence of the Cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus on Hydrogen Peroxide Scavenging Microbes for Growth at the Ocean's Surface

(2011) J. Jeffrey Morris et al.   PLoS One

Drivers of bacterial  -diversity depend on spatial scale

(2011) J. B. H. Martiny et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The spontaneous mutation frequencies of Prochlorococcus strains are commensurate with those of other bacteria

(2011) Marcia S. Osburne et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

The Evolution of Host Specialization in the Vertebrate Gut Symbiont Lactobacillus reuteri

(2011) Steven A. Frese et al.   PLoS Genetics

Biodiversity and Climate Change: Integrating Evolutionary and Ecological Responses of Species and Communities

(2010) Sébastien Lavergne et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Prevalence of a calcium-based alkaline phosphatase associated with the marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus and other ocean bacteria

(2010) Satish Kathuria et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Conceptual Synthesis in Community Ecology

(2010) Mark Vellend   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Patterns of Diversity in Marine Phytoplankton

(2010) A. D. Barton et al.   SCIENCE

The Extinction Dynamics of Bacterial Pseudogenes

(2010) Chih-Horng Kuo et al.   PLoS Genetics

Structure and dynamics of the pan-genome of Streptococcus pneumoniae and closely related species

(2010) Claudio Donati et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Tracking bacterial responses to global warming with an ecotype-based systematics

(2009) F.M. Cohan   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Comparing niche- and process-based models to reduce prediction uncertainty in species range shifts under climate change

(2009) Xavier Morin et al.   ECOLOGY

Iron stress genes in marineSynechococcusand the development of a flow cytometric iron stress assay

(2009) Adam R. Rivers et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Evidence for structuring of bacterial community composition by organic carbon source in temperate lakes

(2009) Stuart E. Jones et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Occurrence of phosphate acquisition genes inProchlorococcuscells from different ocean regions

(2009) Adam C. Martiny et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The presence of the glycolysis operon in SAR11 genomes is positively correlated with ocean productivity

(2009) M. S. Schwalbach et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Choreography of the Transcriptome, Photophysiology, and Cell Cycle of a Minimal Photoautotroph, Prochlorococcus

(2009) Erik R. Zinser et al.   PLoS One

Hutchinson's duality: The once and future niche

(2009) R. K. Colwell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Facilitation of Robust Growth of Prochlorococcus Colonies and Dilute Liquid Cultures by "Helper" Heterotrophic Bacteria

(2008) J. J. Morris et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Origins of Ecological Diversity in Prokaryotes

(2008) Frederick M. Cohan et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic niche conservatism, phylogenetic signal and the relationship between phylogenetic relatedness and ecological similarity among species

(2008) Jonathan B. Losos   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Resistance, resilience, and redundancy in microbial communities

(2008) S. D. Allison et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A latitudinal diversity gradient in planktonic marine bacteria

(2008) J. A. Fuhrman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Resource Partitioning and Sympatric Differentiation Among Closely Related Bacterioplankton

(2008) D. E. Hunt et al.   SCIENCE

Niche dynamics in space and time

(2008) Peter B. Pearman et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION