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@article{citeulike:4376333, abstract = {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.}, author = {Shapiro, B Jesse J. and David, Lawrence A A. and Friedman, Jonathan and Alm, Eric J J.}, citeulike-article-id = {4376333}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2009.02.002}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0966842X0900064X}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19375326}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19375326}, day = {15}, doi = {10.1016/j.tim.2009.02.002}, issn = {0966-842X}, journal = {Trends in microbiology}, keywords = {evolution, horizontal-gene-transfer, microbial-species, microbiology, microorganism, selection, tree-of-life}, month = {April}, posted-at = {2009-04-22 20:39:06}, priority = {0}, title = {Looking for Darwin's footprints in the microbial world.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2009.02.002}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4376333 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4376333 N2 - 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. JF - Trends in microbiology SN - 0966-842X TI - Looking for Darwin's footprints in the microbial world. KW - evolution KW - horizontal-gene-transfer KW - microbial-species KW - microbiology KW - microorganism KW - selection KW - tree-of-life AU - Shapiro, B Jesse AU - David, Lawrence A AU - Friedman, Jonathan AU - Alm, Eric J PY - 2009/04/15/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2009.02.002 ER -