Ecosystem-specific selection pressures revealed through comparative population genomics

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 43, 2010, Pages 18634-18639

  Coleman, Maureen L ^a   Chisholm, Sallie W ^a,b  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Biogeography; Microbial evolution; Natural selection; Phosphorus limitation

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHORUS;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOSS; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MARINE BACTERIUM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PELAGIBACTER; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCHLOROCOCCUS;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; DNA, BACTERIAL; ECOSYSTEM; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MARINE BIOLOGY; METAGENOMICS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYLOGENY; PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SEAWATER; SELECTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CANDIDATUS PELAGIBACTER; PROCHLOROCOCCUS;

EID: 78649868522     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1009480107     Document Type: Article

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