ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2015
Microbial Speciation.
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- Glyphosate-based herbicide exposure triggers genetic adaptation but not diversity collapse within bacterioplankton species.ISME communications · 2026Article
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- Distinct lactate utilization strategies drive niche differentiation between two co-existing Megasphaera species in the rumen microbiome.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- Promiscuous and genome-wide recombination underlies the sequence-discrete species of the SAR11 lineage in the deep ocean.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- Unravelling viral ecology and evolution over 20 years in a freshwater lake.Nature microbiology · 2025Article
- Co-evolution and Gene Transfers Drive Speciation Patterns in Host-Associated Bacteria.Molecular biology and evolution · 2024Article
- Microbial species and intraspecies units exist and are maintained by ecological cohesiveness coupled to high homologous recombination.Nature communications · 2024Article
- isolateR: an R package for generating microbial libraries from Sanger sequencing data.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2024Article
- Adaptations to nitrogen availability drive ecological divergence of chemosynthetic symbionts.PLoS genetics · 2024Article
- Decoding populations in the ocean microbiome.Microbiome · 2024Article
- The global speciation continuum of the cyanobacterium Microcoleus.Nature communications · 2024Article
- A genus in the bacterial phylum Aquificota appears to be endemic to Aotearoa-New Zealand.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Phylogenetics and environmental distribution of nitric oxide-forming nitrite reductases reveal their distinct functional and ecological roles.ISME communications · 2024Article
- Genome-wide support for incipient Tula hantavirus species within a single rodent host lineage.Virus evolution · 2024Article
- Integrated genomic and functional analyses of human skin-associatedProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
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- Relevance of prokaryotic subspecies in the age of genomics.New microbes and new infections · 2022Article
- A mobile restriction-modification system provides phage defence and resolves an epigenetic conflict with an antagonistic endonuclease.Nucleic acids research · 2022Article
- Habitat Adaptation Drives Speciation of amBio · 2022Article
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Abstract
What are species? How do they arise? These questions are not easy to answer and have been particularly controversial in microbiology. Yet, for those microbiologists studying environmental questions or dealing with clinical issues, the ability to name and recognize species, widely considered the fundamental units of ecology, can be practically useful. On a more fundamental level, the speciation problem, the focus here, is more mechanistic and conceptual. What is the origin of microbial species, and what evolutionary and ecological mechanisms keep them separate once they begin to diverge? To what extent are these mechanisms universal across diverse types of microbes, and more broadly across the entire the tree of life? Here, we propose that microbial speciation must be viewed in light of gene flow, which defines units of genetic similarity, and of natural selection, which defines units of phenotype and ecological function. We discuss to what extent ecological and genetic units overlap to form cohesive populations in the wild, based on recent evolutionary modeling and population genomics studies. These studies suggest a continuous "speciation spectrum," which microbial populations traverse in different ways depending on their balance of gene flow and natural selection.
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