Tracking bacterial responses to global warming with an ecotype-based systematics

The broadly defined species of bacterial systematics frequently contain unnamed and unrecognized populations (ecotypes) differing in physiology, genome content, and ecology. Without formal recognition of such ecotypes, it is difficult for microbial ecologists to detect replacement of one ecotype by...

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Published inClinical microbiology and infection Vol. 15; pp. 54 - 59
Main Author Cohan, F.M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Elsevier Ltd 01.01.2009
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Subjects
Bacillus
Bacteria
Bacteria - classification
Bacteria - genetics
Bacteria - growth & development
Bacteria - metabolism
Biodiversity
Computer Simulation
ecology
Ecosystem
Greenhouse Effect
periodic selection
Phylogeny
speciation
species concept
ecology
species concept
Bacillus
periodic selection
speciation
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Summary:The broadly defined species of bacterial systematics frequently contain unnamed and unrecognized populations (ecotypes) differing in physiology, genome content, and ecology. Without formal recognition of such ecotypes, it is difficult for microbial ecologists to detect replacement of one ecotype by another in the face of global warming. The ecotype simulation algorithm has proved capable of supporting investigation of such replacements, as it has detected temperature-distinguished ecotypes that are invisible to the present bacterial systematics. Creating an ecotype-based systematics will help to identify the units of diversity that we will want to track as we seek to observe the early microbial responses to global warming.
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ISSN:1198-743X
1469-0691
DOI:10.1111/j.1469-0691.2008.02681.x