Article
Population level functional diversity in a microbial community revealed by comparative genomic and metagenomic analyses.
The ISME journal - 1 Dec 2007
Bhaya Devaki, Grossman Arthur R, Steunou Anne-Soisig, Khuri Natalia, Cohan Frederick M, Hamamura Natsuko, Melendrez Melanie C, Bateson Mary M, Ward David M, Heidelberg John F
Abstract excerpt
In microbial mat communities of Yellowstone hot springs, ribosomal RNA (rRNA) sequence diversity patterns indicate the presence of closely related bacterial populations along environmental gradients of temperature and light. To identify the functional bases for adaptation, we sequenced the genomes of two cyanobacterial (Synechococcus OS-A and OS-B') isolates representing ecologically distinct populations that...
Topics
- Bacterial Proteins
- Biodiversity
- Cyanobacteria
- Genetic Variation
- Genome, Bacterial
- Genomics
- Iron
- Models, Genetic
- Species Specificity
- Synechococcus