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Microbes don't play solitaire: how cooperation trumps isolation in the microbial world
Author(s) -
Hallam Steven J.,
McCutcheon John P.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
environmental microbiology reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.229
H-Index - 69
ISSN - 1758-2229
DOI - 10.1111/1758-2229.12248
Subject(s) - isolation (microbiology) , solitaire cryptographic algorithm , astrobiology , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , computational biology , psychology , ischemic stroke , ischemia , psychiatry , modified rankin scale
Primitive cells did not carry a stable organismal genealogicaltrace. Primitive cellular evolution is basically communal. Thehigh level of novelty required to evolve cell designs is aproduct of communal invention, of the universal HGT eld,not intralineage variation. It is the community as a whole, theecosystem, which evolves.– Woese (2002)