Explaining microbial genomic diversity in light of evolutionary ecology

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 263-273

  Cordero, Otto X ^a   Polz, Martin F ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOPHAGE RECEPTOR; SIDEROPHORE;

ARCHAEON; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FREQUENCY DEPENDENT SELECTION; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE POOL; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC ISLAND; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NATURAL POPULATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUORUM SENSING; RESOURCE PARTITIONING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETIC VARIATION; MICROBIAL INTERACTIONS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84896398453     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro3218     Document Type: Review

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