“Every Gene Is Everywhere but the Environment Selects”: Global Geolocalization of Gene Sharing in Environmental Samples through Network Analysis

The spatial distribution of microbes on our planet is famously formulated in the Baas Becking hypothesis as “everything is everywhere but the environment selects.” While this hypothesis does not strictly rule out patterns caused by geographical effects on ecology and historical founder effects, it d...

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Main Authors: Fondi, Marco, Karkman, Antti, Tamminen, Manu V., Bosi, Emanuele, Virta, Marko, Fani, Renato, McInerney, James O., Alm, Eric J
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/108673
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8294-9364