Molecular musings in microbial ecology and evolution

Of woods and webs: possible alternatives to the tree of life for studying genomic fluidity in E. coli

(2011) Julie Beauregard-Racine et al.   Biology Direct

The biosynthesis of cyanobacterial sunscreen scytonemin in intertidal microbial mat communities

(2011) Emily P. Balskus et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Bacterial community assembly based on functional genes rather than species

(2011) C. Burke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Functional analysis of natural microbial consortia using community proteomics

(2009) Nathan C. VerBerkmoes et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Biogeography of the Sulfolobus islandicus pan-genome

(2009) M. L. Reno et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Comparative genomics reveals mechanism for short-term and long-term clonal transitions in pandemic Vibrio cholerae

(2009) J. Chun et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Dynamics and Time Scale of Ongoing Genomic Erosion in Symbiotic Bacteria

(2009) N. A. Moran et al.   SCIENCE

The Bacterial Species Challenge: Making Sense of Genetic and Ecological Diversity

(2009) C. Fraser et al.   SCIENCE

Organised Genome Dynamics in the Escherichia coli Species Results in Highly Diverse Adaptive Paths

(2009) Marie Touchon et al.   PLoS Genetics

The Whole-genome Sequencing of the Obligate Intracellular Bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi Revealed Massive Gene Amplification During Reductive Genome Evolution

(2008) K. Nakayama et al.   DNA RESEARCH

A keystone predator controls bacterial diversity in the pitcher-plant (Sarracenia purpurea) microecosystem

(2008) Celeste N. Peterson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Microbial community gene expression in ocean surface waters

(2008) J. Frias-Lopez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Lateral gene transfer challenges principles of microbial systematics

(2008) Eric Bapteste et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Exploring Microbial Diversity and Taxonomy Using SSU rRNA Hypervariable Tag Sequencing

(2008) Susan M. Huse et al.   PLoS Genetics