Looking for Darwin's footprints in the microbial world

被引:62
作者
Shapiro, B. Jesse [1 ]
David, Lawrence A. [1 ]
Friedman, Jonathan [1 ]
Alm, Eric J. [1 ,2 ,3 ,4 ,5 ,6 ]
机构
[1] MIT, Program Computat & Syst Biol, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[2] MIT, Dept Biol Engn, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[3] MIT, Dept Civil Engn, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[4] Virtual Inst Microbial Stress & Survival, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[5] MIT, Broad Inst, Cambridge, MA 02142 USA
[6] Univ Hartford, Cambridge, MA 02142 USA
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
DETECTING POSITIVE SELECTION; ESCHERICHIA-COLI CHROMOSOME; GENOME-WIDE DETECTION; PROTEIN-CODING GENES; POPULATION GENOMICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL-SELECTION; RECOMBINATION; MUTATION; ADAPTATION;
D O I
10.1016/j.tim.2009.02.002
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
As we observe the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, microbiologists interested in the application of Darwin's ideas to the microscopic world have a lot to celebrate: an emerging picture of the (mostly microbial) Tree of Life at ever-increasing resolution, an understanding of horizontal gene transfer as a driving force in the evolution of microbes, and thousands of complete genome sequences to help formulate and refine our theories. At the same time, quantitative models of the microevolutionary processes shaping microbial populations remain just out of reach, a point that is perhaps most dramatically illustrated by the lack of consensus on how (or even whether) to define bacterial species. Here, we summarize progress and prospects in bacterial population genetics, with an emphasis on detecting the footprint of positive Darwinian selection in microbial genomes.
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页码:196 / 204
页数:9
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