Distinct assembly processes and microbial communities constrain soil organic carbon formation

MA Anthony, TW Crowther, DS Maynard… - One earth, 2020‏ - cell.com
Soil stores more carbon (C) than all vegetation and the atmosphere combined. Soil C stocks
are broadly shaped by temperature, moisture, soil physical characteristics, vegetation, and …

The complex relationship between microbial growth rate and yield and its implications for ecosystem processes

DA Lipson - Frontiers in microbiology, 2015‏ - frontiersin.org
Growth rate and efficiency are fundamental traits of microbes that significantly influence how
communities and ecosystems function. However the microbiological literature shows an …

Historical contingency and the evolution of a key innovation in an experimental population of Escherichia coli

ZD Blount, CZ Borland, RE Lenski - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008‏ - pnas.org
The role of historical contingency in evolution has been much debated, but rarely tested.
Twelve initially identical populations of Escherichia coli were founded in 1988 to investigate …

Nitrous oxide reduction kinetics distinguish bacteria harboring clade I NosZ from those harboring clade II NosZ

S Yoon, S Nissen, D Park, RA Sanford… - Applied and …, 2016‏ - journals.asm.org
Bacteria capable of reduction of nitrous oxide (N2O) to N2 separate into clade I and clade II
organisms on the basis of nos operon structures and nosZ sequence features. To explore …

Trait variation in yeast is defined by population history

J Warringer, E Zörgö, FA Cubillos, A Zia… - PLoS …, 2011‏ - journals.plos.org
A fundamental goal in biology is to achieve a mechanistic understanding of how and to what
extent ecological variation imposes selection for distinct traits and favors the fixation of …

Mutualism-enhancing mutations dominate early adaptation in a two-species microbial community

S Venkataram, HY Kuo, EFY Hom… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Species interactions drive evolution while evolution shapes these interactions. The resulting
eco-evolutionary dynamics and their repeatability depend on how adaptive mutations …

Genome-scale dynamic modeling of the competition between Rhodoferax and Geobacter in anoxic subsurface environments

K Zhuang, M Izallalen, P Mouser, H Richter… - The ISME …, 2011‏ - academic.oup.com
The advent of rapid complete genome sequencing, and the potential to capture this
information in genome-scale metabolic models, provide the possibility of comprehensively …

Trade-off mechanisms sha** the diversity of bacteria

T Ferenci - Trends in microbiology, 2016‏ - cell.com
Strain-to-strain variations in bacterial biofilm formation, metabolism, motility, virulence,
evolvability, DNA repair and resistance (to phage, antibiotics, or environmental stresses) …

Different levels of catabolite repression optimize growth in stable and variable environments

AM New, B Cerulus, SK Govers, G Perez-Samper… - PLoS …, 2014‏ - journals.plos.org
Organisms respond to environmental changes by adapting the expression of key genes.
However, such transcriptional reprogramming requires time and energy, and may also leave …

Availability of public goods shapes the evolution of competing metabolic strategies

H Bachmann, M Fischlechner, I Rabbers… - Proceedings of the …, 2013‏ - pnas.org
Tradeoffs provide a rationale for the outcome of natural selection. A prominent example is
the negative correlation between the growth rate and the biomass yield in unicellular …