Streamlining and Core Genome Conservation among Highly Divergent Members of the SAR11 Clade

ABSTRACT SAR11 is an ancient and diverse clade of heterotrophic bacteria that are abundant throughout the world’s oceans, where they play a major role in the ocean carbon cycle. Correlations between the phylogenetic branching order and spatiotemporal patterns in cell distributions from planktonic oc...

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Main Authors: Jana Grote, J. Cameron Thrash, Megan J. Huggett, Zachary C. Landry, Paul Carini, Stephen J. Giovannoni, Michael S. Rappé
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2012-11-01
Series:mBio
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.00252-12