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| Open AccessSelection for increased quorum-sensing cooperation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa through the shut-down of a drug resistance pump
- Ron D. Oshri
- , Keren S. Zrihen
- & Avigdor Eldar
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Eavesdropping and crosstalk between secreted quorum sensing peptide signals that regulate bacteriocin production in Streptococcus pneumoniae
- Eric L. Miller
- , Morten Kjos
- & Daniel E. Rozen
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Nutrient transport suggests an evolutionary basis for charged archaeal surface layer proteins
- Po-Nan Li
- , Jonathan Herrmann
- & Henry van den Bedem
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Specialized plant biochemistry drives gene clustering in fungi
- Emile Gluck-Thaler
- & Jason C. Slot
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Quorum-sensing control of antibiotic resistance stabilizes cooperation in Chromobacterium violaceum
- Kara C Evans
- , Saida Benomar
- & Josephine R Chandler
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The fungus that came in from the cold: dry rot’s pre-adapted ability to invade buildings
- S. V. Balasundaram
- , J. Hess
- & I. Skrede
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| Open AccessRecent expansion of heat-activated retrotransposons in the coral symbiont Symbiodinium microadriaticum
- Jit Ern Chen
- , Guoxin Cui
- & Manuel Aranda
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Metabolite toxicity slows local diversity loss during expansion of a microbial cross-feeding community
- Felix Goldschmidt
- , Roland R Regoes
- & David R Johnson
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Tremblaya phenacola PPER: an evolutionary beta-gammaproteobacterium collage
- Rosario Gil
- , Carlos Vargas-Chavez
- & Andrés Moya
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| Open AccessFunction-related replacement of bacterial siderophore pathways
- Hilke Bruns
- , Max Crüsemann
- & Nadine Ziemert
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| Open AccessAdaptive evolution of rhizobial symbiotic compatibility mediated by co-evolved insertion sequences
- Ran Zhao
- , Li Xue Liu
- & Chang Fu Tian
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| Open AccessHigh abundance and expression of transposases in bacteria from the Baltic Sea
- Theoden Vigil-Stenman
- , Karolina Ininbergs
- & Martin Ekman
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| Open AccessNitrogen cost minimization is promoted by structural changes in the transcriptome of N-deprived Prochlorococcus cells
- Robert W Read
- , Paul M Berube
- & Joseph J Grzymski
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Letting go: bacterial genome reduction solves the dilemma of adapting to predation mortality in a substrate-restricted environment
- Michael Baumgartner
- , Stefan Roffler
- & Jakob Pernthaler
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Successive range expansion promotes diversity and accelerates evolution in spatially structured microbial populations
- Felix Goldschmidt
- , Roland R Regoes
- & David R Johnson
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| Open AccessProkaryote genome fluidity is dependent on effective population size
- Nadia Andrea Andreani
- , Elze Hesse
- & Michiel Vos
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| Open AccessGene mobility promotes the spread of resistance in bacterial populations
- Cagla Stevenson
- , James PJ Hall
- & Michael A Brockhurst
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| Open AccessChance and necessity in the genome evolution of endosymbiotic bacteria of insects
- Beatriz Sabater-Muñoz
- , Christina Toft
- & Mario A Fares
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| Open AccessDivergent functional isoforms drive niche specialisation for nutrient acquisition and use in rumen microbiome
- Francesco Rubino
- , Ciara Carberry
- & Christopher J Creevey
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Photosynthetic temperature adaptation during niche diversification of the thermophilic cyanobacterium Synechococcus A/B clade
- Deana Pedersen
- & Scott R Miller
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Single-cell mass spectrometry reveals the importance of genetic diversity and plasticity for phenotypic variation in nitrogen-limited Chlamydomonas
- Jasmin Krismer
- , Manu Tamminen
- & Anita Narwani
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| Open AccessThe effect of extrinsic mortality on genome size evolution in prokaryotes
- Piotr Bentkowski
- , Cock van Oosterhout
- & Thomas Mock
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Assessment of the bimodality in the distribution of bacterial genome sizes
- Hyun S Gweon
- , Mark J Bailey
- & Daniel S Read
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| Open AccessEvolution by flight and fight: diverse mechanisms of adaptation by actively motile microbes
- Olaya Rendueles
- & Gregory J Velicer
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| Open AccessPhylogenomic networks reveal limited phylogenetic range of lateral gene transfer by transduction
- Ovidiu Popa
- , Giddy Landan
- & Tal Dagan
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Genomic composition and dynamics among Methanomicrobiales predict adaptation to contrasting environments
- Patrick Browne
- , Hideyuki Tamaki
- & Hinsby Cadillo-Quiroz
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Genomics of variation in nitrogen fixation activity in a population of the thermophilic cyanobacterium Mastigocladus laminosus
- Patrick R Hutchins
- & Scott R Miller
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The antibiotic resistome of swine manure is significantly altered by association with the Musca domestica larvae gut microbiome
- Hang Wang
- , Naseer Sangwan
- & Han-Luo Zhang
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| Open AccessAncestral genome reconstruction identifies the evolutionary basis for trait acquisition in polyphosphate accumulating bacteria
- Ben O Oyserman
- , Francisco Moya
- & Katherine D McMahon
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Genomics of a phototrophic nitrite oxidizer: insights into the evolution of photosynthesis and nitrification
- James Hemp
- , Sebastian Lücker
- & Woodward W Fischer
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Is chloroplastic class IIA aldolase a marine enzyme?
- Hitoshi Miyasaka
- , Takeru Ogata
- & Kazumasa Hirata
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| Open AccessA barrier to homologous recombination between sympatric strains of the cooperative soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus
- Sébastien Wielgoss
- , Xavier Didelot
- & Michiel Vos
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| Open AccessGenetic and life-history traits associated with the distribution of prophages in bacteria
- Marie Touchon
- , Aude Bernheim
- & Eduardo PC Rocha
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Beyond the Black Queen Hypothesis
- Alix Mas
- , Shahrad Jamshidi
- & Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse
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Co-occurring Synechococcus ecotypes occupy four major oceanic regimes defined by temperature, macronutrients and iron
- Jill A Sohm
- , Nathan A Ahlgren
- & Gabrielle Rocap
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Genomic potential for arsenic efflux and methylation varies among global Prochlorococcus populations
- Jaclyn K Saunders
- & Gabrielle Rocap
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Marine diatom proteorhodopsins and their potential role in coping with low iron availability
- Adrian Marchetti
- , Dylan Catlett
- & Nicolas Cassar
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Single-cell genomics of a rare environmental alphaproteobacterium provides unique insights into Rickettsiaceae evolution
- Joran Martijn
- , Frederik Schulz
- & Thijs J G Ettema
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Evidence for extensive gene flow and Thermotoga subpopulations in subsurface and marine environments
- Camilla L Nesbø
- , Kristen S Swithers
- & Olga Zhaxybayeva
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Inter-phylum HGT has shaped the metabolism of many mesophilic and anaerobic bacteria
- Alejandro Caro-Quintero
- & Konstantinos T Konstantinidis
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Widespread expression of conserved small RNAs in small symbiont genomes
- Allison K Hansen
- & Patrick H Degnan
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Diversification of endosymbiosis: replacements, co-speciation and promiscuity of bacteriocyte symbionts in weevils
- Hirokazu Toju
- , Akifumi S Tanabe
- & Takema Fukatsu
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Molecular evidence of iron limitation and availability in the global diazotroph Trichodesmium
- Phoebe Dreux Chappell
- , James W Moffett
- & Eric A Webb