Quantitative phylogenetic assessment of microbial communities in diverse environments

Item Type:	Article
Title:	Quantitative phylogenetic assessment of microbial communities in diverse environments
Creators Name:	von Mering, C. and Hugenholtz, P. and Raes, J. and Tringe, S.G. and Doerks, T. and Jensen, L.J. and Ward, N. and Bork, P.
Abstract:	The taxonomic composition of environmental communities is an important indicator of their ecology and function. Here, we use a set of protein-coding marker genes, extracted from large-scale environmental shotgun sequencing data, to provide a more direct, quantitative and accurate picture of community composition than traditional rRNA-based approaches using polymerase chain reaction (PCR). By mapping marker genes from four diverse environmental data sets onto a reference species phylogeny, we show that certain communities evolve faster than others, determine preferred habitats for entire microbial clades, and provide evidence that such habitat preferences are often remarkably stable over time.
Keywords:	Bacteria, Bone and Bones, Ecosystem, Environmental Microbiology, Evolution, Bacterial Genes, rRNA Genes, Genetic Markers, Genomics, Likelihood Functions, Mining, Phylogeny, Seawater, Soil Microbiology, Water Microbiology, Animals, Whales
Source:	Science
ISSN:	0036-8075
Publisher:	American Association for the Advancement of Science
Volume:	315
Number:	5815
Page Range:	1126-1130
Date:	23 February 2007
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1133420
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