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Streamlining and core genome conservation among highly divergent members of the SAR11 clade.
mBio - 1 Jan 2012
Grote Jana, Thrash J Cameron, Huggett Megan J, Landry Zachary C, Carini Paul, Giovannoni Stephen J, Rappé Michael S
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SAR11 is an ancient and diverse clade of heterotrophic bacteria that are abundant throughout the world's oceans, where they play a major role in the ocean carbon cycle. Correlations between the phylogenetic branching order and spatiotemporal patterns in cell distributions from planktonic ocean environments indicate that SAR11 has evolved into perhaps a dozen or more specialized ecotypes that span evolutionary...
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