Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "Bacterial Evolution"
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Can You Sequence Ecology? Metagenomics of Adaptive Diversification
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Few areas of science have benefited more from the expansion in sequencing capability than the study of microbial communities. Can sequence data, besides providing hypotheses of the functions the members possess, detect the ... -
Development of an Optimized Medium, Strain and High-Throughput Culturing Methods for Methylobacterium extorquens
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Methylobacterium extorquens strains are the best-studied methylotrophic model system, and their metabolism of single carbon compounds has been studied for over 50 years. Here we develop a new system for high-throughput ... -
The Evolution of Cell-to-Cell Communication in a Sporulating Bacterium
(Public Library of Science, 2012)Traditionally microorganisms were considered to be autonomous organisms that could be studied in isolation. However, over the last decades cell-to-cell communication has been found to be ubiquitous. By secreting molecular ... -
Phenotypic Heterogeneity and the Evolution of Bacterial Life Cycles
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Most bacteria live in colonies, where they often express different cell types. The ecological significance of these cell types and their evolutionary origin are often unknown. Here, we study the evolution of cell differentiation ... -
A Veritable Menagerie of Heritable Bacteria from Ants, Butterflies, and Beyond: Broad Molecular Surveys and a Systematic Review
(Public Library of Science, 2012)Maternally transmitted bacteria have been important players in the evolution of insects and other arthropods, affecting their nutrition, defense, development, and reproduction. Wolbachia are the best studied among these ...