Adaptive radiation by waves of gene transfer leads to fine-scale resource partitioning in marine microbes
Adaptive radiations are important drivers of niche filling, since they rapidly adapt a single clade of organisms to ecological opportunities. Although thought to be common for animals and plants, adaptive radiations have remained difficult to document for microbes in the wild. Here we describe a rec...
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| author | Hehemann, Jan-Hendrik Arevalo, Philip Alexander Datta, Manoshi Sen Yu, Xiaoqian Corzett, Christopher H. Henschel, Andreas Preheim, Sarah P. Timberlake, Sonia Crago Alm, Eric J Polz, Martin F |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computational and Systems Biology Program Hehemann, Jan-Hendrik Arevalo, Philip Alexander Datta, Manoshi Sen Yu, Xiaoqian Corzett, Christopher H. Henschel, Andreas Preheim, Sarah P. Timberlake, Sonia Crago Alm, Eric J Polz, Martin F |
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| description | Adaptive radiations are important drivers of niche filling, since they rapidly adapt a single clade of organisms to ecological opportunities. Although thought to be common for animals and plants, adaptive radiations have remained difficult to document for microbes in the wild. Here we describe a recent adaptive radiation leading to fine-scale ecophysiological differentiation in the degradation of an algal glycan in a clade of closely related marine bacteria. Horizontal gene transfer is the primary driver in the diversification of the pathway leading to several ecophysiologically differentiated Vibrionaceae populations adapted to different physical forms of alginate. Pathway architecture is predictive of function and ecology, underscoring that horizontal gene transfer without extensive regulatory changes can rapidly assemble fully functional pathways in microbes. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1106292022-10-01T10:30:12Z Adaptive radiation by waves of gene transfer leads to fine-scale resource partitioning in marine microbes Hehemann, Jan-Hendrik Arevalo, Philip Alexander Datta, Manoshi Sen Yu, Xiaoqian Corzett, Christopher H. Henschel, Andreas Preheim, Sarah P. Timberlake, Sonia Crago Alm, Eric J Polz, Martin F Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computational and Systems Biology Program Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Hehemann, Jan-Hendrik Arevalo, Philip Alexander Datta, Manoshi Sen Yu, Xiaoqian Corzett, Christopher H. Henschel, Andreas Preheim, Sarah P. Timberlake, Sonia Crago Alm, Eric J Polz, Martin F Adaptive radiations are important drivers of niche filling, since they rapidly adapt a single clade of organisms to ecological opportunities. Although thought to be common for animals and plants, adaptive radiations have remained difficult to document for microbes in the wild. Here we describe a recent adaptive radiation leading to fine-scale ecophysiological differentiation in the degradation of an algal glycan in a clade of closely related marine bacteria. Horizontal gene transfer is the primary driver in the diversification of the pathway leading to several ecophysiologically differentiated Vibrionaceae populations adapted to different physical forms of alginate. Pathway architecture is predictive of function and ecology, underscoring that horizontal gene transfer without extensive regulatory changes can rapidly assemble fully functional pathways in microbes. United States. Department of Energy (DE-SC0008743) National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship 2017-07-11T15:19:32Z 2017-07-11T15:19:32Z 2016-09 2016-02 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2041-1723 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110629 Hehemann, Jan-Hendrik, Philip Arevalo, Manoshi S. Datta, Xiaoqian Yu, Christopher H. Corzett, Andreas Henschel, Sarah P. Preheim, Sonia Timberlake, Eric J. Alm, and Martin F. Polz. “Adaptive Radiation by Waves of Gene Transfer Leads to Fine-Scale Resource Partitioning in Marine Microbes.” Nature Communications 7 (September 22, 2016): 12860. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1237-2314 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6843-9843 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8105-8444 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0172-3705 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8294-9364 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9296-3733 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12860 Nature Communications Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Nature Publishing Group Nature |
| spellingShingle | Hehemann, Jan-Hendrik Arevalo, Philip Alexander Datta, Manoshi Sen Yu, Xiaoqian Corzett, Christopher H. Henschel, Andreas Preheim, Sarah P. Timberlake, Sonia Crago Alm, Eric J Polz, Martin F Adaptive radiation by waves of gene transfer leads to fine-scale resource partitioning in marine microbes |
| title | Adaptive radiation by waves of gene transfer leads to fine-scale resource partitioning in marine microbes |
| title_full | Adaptive radiation by waves of gene transfer leads to fine-scale resource partitioning in marine microbes |
| title_fullStr | Adaptive radiation by waves of gene transfer leads to fine-scale resource partitioning in marine microbes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Adaptive radiation by waves of gene transfer leads to fine-scale resource partitioning in marine microbes |
| title_short | Adaptive radiation by waves of gene transfer leads to fine-scale resource partitioning in marine microbes |
| title_sort | adaptive radiation by waves of gene transfer leads to fine scale resource partitioning in marine microbes |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110629 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1237-2314 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6843-9843 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8105-8444 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0172-3705 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8294-9364 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9296-3733 |
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