Article
Novelty, diversity, and genetic dark matter in enterococci of invertebrates.
mBio - 9 Sept 2026
Sgardioli Bruna F, Phillips Matthew C, Miklos Arjun, Fleiszig-Evans Kailey, Manson Abigail L, Scarpa de Mello Suelen, Shea Terrance, Urhan Aysun, Whipple Ryan, Salamzade Rauf, Sanders Jasper, Borges Paulo A V, Dapkevicius Maria de Lurdes Nunes Enes, Earl Ashlee M, Gilmore Michael S
Abstract excerpt
Enterococci appear to have originated in the guts of early terrestrializing arthropods and invertebrates over 425 million years ago-hosts that are now highly diverse and widespread in nature today. Yet most knowledge of the genus comes from human infection-associated lineages with genomes swollen by the recent accretion of foreign DNA conveyed by mobile elements. Because invertebrates dominate terrestrial animal...
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- Animals
- Invertebrates
- Enterococcus
- Genetic Variation
- Phylogeny
