Local Adaptation of Bacteriophages to Their Bacterial Hosts in Soil Export

@article{citeulike:5439617, abstract = {Microbes are incredibly abundant and diverse and are key to ecosystem functioning, yet relatively little is known about the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that shape their distributions. Bacteriophages, viral parasites that lyse their bacterial hosts, exert intense and spatially varying selection pressures on bacteria and vice versa. We measured local adaptation of bacteria and their associated phages in a centimeter-scale soil population. We first demonstrate that a large proportion of bacteria is sensitive to locally occurring phages. We then show that sympatric phages (isolated from the same 2-gram soil samples as the bacteria) are more infective than are phages from samples some distance away. This study demonstrates the importance of biotic interactions for the small-scale spatial structuring of microbial genetic diversity in soil. 10.1126/science.1174173}, author = {Vos, Michiel and Birkett, Philip J. and Birch, Elizabeth and Griffiths, Robert I. and Buckling, Angus}, citeulike-article-id = {5439617}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1174173}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/content/325/5942/833.abstract}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/content/325/5942/833.full.pdf}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/325/5942/833}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19679806}, citeulike-linkout-5 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19679806}, day = {14}, doi = {10.1126/science.1174173}, issn = {1095-9203}, journal = {Science}, keywords = {environment, metagenomics}, month = {August}, number = {5942}, pages = {833+}, posted-at = {2009-08-15 18:54:26}, priority = {4}, title = {Local Adaptation of Bacteriophages to Their Bacterial Hosts in Soil}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1174173}, volume = {325}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5439617 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5439617 N2 - Microbes are incredibly abundant and diverse and are key to ecosystem functioning, yet relatively little is known about the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that shape their distributions. Bacteriophages, viral parasites that lyse their bacterial hosts, exert intense and spatially varying selection pressures on bacteria and vice versa. We measured local adaptation of bacteria and their associated phages in a centimeter-scale soil population. We first demonstrate that a large proportion of bacteria is sensitive to locally occurring phages. We then show that sympatric phages (isolated from the same 2-gram soil samples as the bacteria) are more infective than are phages from samples some distance away. This study demonstrates the importance of biotic interactions for the small-scale spatial structuring of microbial genetic diversity in soil. 10.1126/science.1174173 IS - 5942 JF - Science SN - 1095-9203 TI - Local Adaptation of Bacteriophages to Their Bacterial Hosts in Soil VL - 325 SP - 833 KW - environment KW - metagenomics AU - Vos, Michiel AU - Birkett, Philip AU - Birch, Elizabeth AU - Griffiths, Robert AU - Buckling, Angus PY - 2009/08/14/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1174173 ER -