Free-Living, Psychrotrophic Bacteria of the Genus Psychrobacter Are Descendants of Pathobionts

Free-Living, Psychrotrophic Bacteria of the Genus Psychrobacter Are Descendants of Pathobionts

ABSTRACT Host-adapted microorganisms are generally assumed to have evolved from free-living, environmental microorganisms, as examples of the reverse process are rare. In the phylum Gammaproteobacteria, family Moraxellaceae, the genus Psychrobacter includes strains from a broad ecological distributi...

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Main Authors: Daphne K. Welter, Albane Ruaud, Zachariah M. Henseler, Hannah N. De Jong, Peter van Coeverden de Groot, Johan Michaux, Linda Gormezano, Jillian L. Waters, Nicholas D. Youngblut, Ruth E. Ley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2021-04-01
Series:mSystems
Subjects:
genomics
phylogeny
Psychrobacter
psychrophiles
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msystems.00258-21

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https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msystems.00258-21

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