The emergence of cyanobacterial species (speciation) is driven by mutation, selection, gene
flow, and geographical and ecological isolation. Population genomics explores the process …

Marine bacteria and archaea play key roles in global biogeochemistry. To improve our
understanding of this complex microbiome, we employed single-cell genomics and a …

Microdiversity can lead to different ecotypes within the same species. These are assumed to
provide stability in time and space to those species. However, the role of microdiversity in …

Horizontal gene transfer accelerates microbial evolution. The marine picocyanobacterium
Prochlorococcus exhibits high genomic plasticity, yet the underlying mechanisms are …

Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus are the dominant primary producers in marine
ecosystems and perform a significant fraction of ocean carbon fixation. These cyanobacteria …

Abstract Sulfate-reducing bacteria Candidatus Desulforudis audaxviator (CDA) were
originally discovered in deep fracture fluids accessed via South African gold mines and have …

Marine cyanobacteria of the genera Synechococcus and Prochlorococcus are the most
abundant photosynthetic organisms on earth, spanning vast regions of the oceans and …

Ecological and evolutionary dynamics are intrinsically entwined. On short timescales,
ecological interactions determine the fate and impact of new mutants, while on longer …

The globally abundant marine Cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus share
many physiological traits but presumably have different evolutionary histories and …

The ever-increasing number of available microbial genomes and metagenomes provides
new opportunities to investigate the links between niche partitioning and genome evolution …