<i>Drosophila</i> Model for Gut-Mediated Horizontal Transfer of Narrow- and Broad-Host-Range Plasmids by Logan C. Ott, Mark Engelken, Sara M. Scott, Elizabeth M. McNeill, Melha Mellata

“…Microbial evolution in the gut of animals due to horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is of significant interest for microbial evolution as well as within the context of human and animal health. …”
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Darwin’s goldmine is still open: variation and selection run the world by Patrick eFORTERRE, Patrick eFORTERRE

“…However, in recent years, several evolutionists have criticized Darwin as outdated, arguing that Darwinism, assimilated to the tree of life, cannot explain microbial evolution, or else was not operating in early life evolution. …”
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Temperature and Geographic Location Impact the Distribution and Diversity of Photoautotrophic Gene Variants in Alkaline Yellowstone Hot Springs by Annastacia C. Bennett, Senthil K. Murugapiran, Eric D. Kees, Hailey M. Sauer, Trinity L. Hamilton

“…Anoxygenic phototrophs are metabolically and taxonomically diverse, and further investigations into their physiology will lead to a deeper understanding of microbial evolution and ecology of these taxa. Here, we have quantified the distribution of key genes involved in carbon and nitrogen metabolism in both oxygenic and anoxygenic phototrophs. …”
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Host ZCCHC3 blocks HIV-1 infection and production through a dual mechanism by Binbin Yi, Yuri L. Tanaka, Daphne Cornish, Hidetaka Kosako, Erika P. Butlertanaka, Prabuddha Sengupta, Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, Judd F. Hultquist, Akatsuki Saito, Shige H. Yoshimura

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Balancing Positive and Negative Selection: <i>In Vivo</i> Evolution of Candida lusitaniae <i>MRR1</i> by Elora G. Demers, Jason E. Stajich, Alix Ashare, Patricia Occhipinti, Deborah A. Hogan

“…Understanding microbial evolution within patients is critical for managing chronic infections and understanding host-pathogen interactions. …”
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Dynamics of bacterial recombination in the human gut microbiome. by Zhiru Liu, Benjamin H Good

“…Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a ubiquitous force in microbial evolution. Previous work has shown that the human gut is a hotspot for gene transfer between species, but the more subtle exchange of variation within species-also known as recombination-remains poorly characterized in this ecosystem. …”
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Novel “Superspreader” Bacteriophages Promote Horizontal Gene Transfer by Transformation by Eric C. Keen, Valery V. Bliskovsky, Francisco Malagon, James D. Baker, Jeffrey S. Prince, James S. Klaus, Sankar L. Adhya

“…Taken together, our results suggest that phage superspreaders may play key roles in microbial evolution and ecology but should be avoided in phage therapy and other medical applications. …”
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Ancient microbes from halite fluid inclusions: optimized surface sterilization and DNA extraction. by Krithivasan Sankaranarayanan, Michael N Timofeeff, Rita Spathis, Tim K Lowenstein, J Koji Lum

“…The protocol we developed opens up new avenues for study of ancient microbial ecosystems in fluid inclusions, understanding microbial evolution across geological time, and investigating the antiquity of life on earth and other parts of the solar system.…”
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Phenotypic plasticity as an adaptation to a functional trade-off by Xiao Yi, Antony M Dean

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A high-resolution view of genome-wide pneumococcal transformation. by Nicholas J Croucher, Simon R Harris, Lars Barquist, Julian Parkhill, Stephen D Bentley

“…Transformation is an important mechanism of microbial evolution through which bacteria have been observed to rapidly adapt in response to clinical interventions; examples include facilitating vaccine evasion and the development of penicillin resistance in the major respiratory pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae. …”
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Recruitment of Mobile Genetic Elements for Diverse Cellular Functions in Prokaryotes by Sean Benler, Eugene V. Koonin

“…On numerous occasions during microbial evolution, diverse MGE lose their autonomy altogether but, rather than being quickly purged from the host genome, assume a new function that benefits the host, rendering the immobilized MGE subject to purifying selection, and resulting in its vertical inheritance. …”
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Lineage Tracking for Probing Heritable Phenotypes at Single-Cell Resolution. by Denis Cottinet, Florence Condamine, Nicolas Bremond, Andrew D Griffiths, Paul B Rainey, J Arjan G M de Visser, Jean Baudry, Jérôme Bibette

“…Determining the phenotype and genotype of single cells is central to understand microbial evolution. DNA sequencing technologies allow the detection of mutants at high resolution, but similar approaches for phenotypic analyses are still lacking. …”
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Adaptation of Bacillus thuringiensis to Plant Colonization Affects Differentiation and Toxicity by Yicen Lin, Monica Alstrup, Janet Ka Yan Pang, Gergely Maróti, Mériem Er-Rafik, Nicolas Tourasse, Ole Andreas Økstad, Ákos T. Kovács

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Spontaneous reaction silencing in metabolic optimization. by Takashi Nishikawa, Natali Gulbahce, Adilson E Motter

“…Our results help explain existing experimental data on intracellular flux measurements and the usage of latent pathways, shedding new light on microbial evolution, robustness, and versatility for the execution of specific biochemical tasks. …”
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Emerging diseases and implications for Millennium Development Goals in Africa by 2015 - an overview by Mohammed Bello, Tagang Aluwong

“…Further contributing issues, such as the increased movement of animal species, microbial evolution, ecological disruption, changes in human behaviour, all imply that emerging diseases will not only continue to occur, but the rate of their emergence will also increase. …”
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Reconstructing horizontal gene flow network to understand prokaryotic evolution by Soham Sengupta, Rajeev K. Azad

“…Quantification of HGT is critical to decipher its myriad roles in microbial evolution and adaptation. Advances in genome sequencing and bioinformatics have augmented our ability to understand the microbial world, particularly the direct or indirect influence of HGT on diverse life forms. …”
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PP 3.13 – 00189 HIV-1-infected individuals with extremely low reservoir under ART are characterized by reduced viral diversity and higher levels of hypermutations in their viral re... by R. Lorenzo-Redondo, I. Gonzalez, C. Galvez, L. Garrido, V. Urrea, J. Martinez-Picado, M. Salgado

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OP 8.5 – 00104 TGF-beta Blockade to Stop HIV White Noise: a New “Release and Kill” HIV Strategy by E. Martinelli, M.R. Haque, J. Kim, S. Samer, Y. Thomas, D. Bose, B. Keele, R. Lorenzo-Redondo, T.J. Hope, F.J. Villinger

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Bridging the gap between microbial and metazoan evolutionary history by Parsons, Chris

“…The ancient shared ancestry of these two groups presents an opportunity to leverage the rich metazoan fossil record to constrain the timing and mechanisms of microbial evolution. In this thesis, I connect these two disparate groups in three different ways: 1) identification of genes with a history of recent transfer between Bacteria and Metazoa, 2) characterization of a bacterial protein family with specificity for a metazoan substrate, in this case collagen, and 3) using animal fossil age ranges as a proxy for hypothetical microbial lineages on the early Earth. …”
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A bacteriophage-related chimeric marine virus infecting abalone. by Jun Zhuang, Guiqin Cai, Qiying Lin, Zujian Wu, Lianhui Xie

“…Genomic characterization of AbSV indicates that it may represent a transitional form of microbial evolution from viruses to bacteria.…”
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