Open AccessAlign to Define: Ecologically Meaningful Populations from Genomes
Author(s) -
Sergey Stolyar,
Christopher J. Marx
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
cell
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304
H-Index - 776
eISSN - 1097-4172
pISSN - 0092-8674
DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2019.07.026
Subject(s) - biology , ecological niche , evolutionary biology , ecology , population , divergence (linguistics) , genome , gene , genetics , habitat , sociology , linguistics , philosophy , demography
Microbes in the same community but with distinct niches can have unique long stretches of perfect sequence identity due to recent genetic exchange. Arevalo et al. (2019) use this as a starting point for defining ecologically-relevant populations within a community and to identify the genes that appear to be driving divergence between populations.
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