Article
Ecological specialization in a spatially structured population of the thermophilic cyanobacterium Mastigocladus laminosus.
Applied and environmental microbiology - 1 Feb 2009
Miller Scott R, Williams Carin, Strong Aaron L, Carvey Darla
Abstract excerpt
Laboratory evolution experiments suggest the potential for microbial populations to contribute significant ecological variation to ecosystems, yet the functional importance of genetic diversity within natural populations of microorganisms is largely unknown. Here, we investigated the distribution of genetic and phenotypic variation for a population of the cyanobacterium Mastigocladus laminosus distributed along...
Topics
- Bacterial Proteins
- Cluster Analysis
- Cyanobacteria
- DNA, Bacterial
- Ecosystem
- Genetic Variation
- Metabolic Networks and Pathways
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
