Align to Define: Ecologically Meaningful Populations from Genomes

Sergey Stolyar; Christopher J Marx

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2019.07.026

Align to Define: Ecologically Meaningful Populations from Genomes

Cell. 2019 Aug 8;178(4):767-768. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.07.026.

Authors

Sergey Stolyar¹, Christopher J Marx²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biological Sciences, Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies, Center for Modeling Complex Interactions, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA.
² Department of Biological Sciences, Institute for Bioinformatics and Evolutionary Studies, Center for Modeling Complex Interactions, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA. Electronic address: cmarx@uidaho.edu.

PMID: 31398331
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.07.026

Abstract

Microbes in the same community but with distinct niches can have unique long stretches of perfect sequence identity due to recent genetic exchange. Arevalo et al. (2019) use this as a starting point for defining ecologically-relevant populations within a community and to identify the genes that appear to be driving divergence between populations.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
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MeSH terms

Genome, Bacterial*