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In this month's column we discuss three genome projects that reveal different aspects of microbial diversity and adaptability to different environmental niches; an impressively large community metagenomic sequencing project that has provided an enormous amount of data from a nutrient-poor aquatic environment; the sequence of an oral spirochete, Treponema denticola, which illustrates how readily related microorganisms adapt to different niches in the human body; and the first genome of a Wolbachia species, which sheds light on these fascinating bacterial manipulators of invertebrate biology.
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Cerdeño-Tárraga, A., Crossman, L. & Parkhill, J. New environments, versatile genomes. Nat Rev Microbiol 2, 446–447 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro910
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