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

• Published in: Clinical microbiology and infection Vol. 15; pp. 54 - 59
• Main Author: Cohan, F.M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• 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

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...