Abstract
Editorial: Searching for the Boundaries of Microbial Speciation in a Rapidly Evolving World
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Whether bacteria and archaea form species-like populations has been a long-standing debate
Editorial: Boundaries of Microbial Speciation variant sub-populations of bacteria. Such a diversification process is compensated by the genetic interactions of sub-niche bacterial variants, leading to an evolved population able to fully exploit the expanded niche
The ability to colonize nutrient-poor substrates, unusual for most agrobacteria, resonate with the finding that A. tomkonis genomes carry genes involved in mediating attachment to surfaces, including production of putative adhesins and biofilm production. This suggests a particular ability of A. tomkonis to colonize different habitats that are even poorer in nutrients and harsher than soil, possibly escaping competition with other agrobacteria that are better at growing in richer environments, such as plant rhizospheres
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Searching for the Boundaries of Microbial Speciation in a Rapidly Evolving World. Edited and reviewed by: Ludmila Chistoserdova, University of Washington, United States. Specialty section: This article was submitted to Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Microbiology. Received: 03 November 2021 Accepted: 29 November 2021 Published: 23 December 2021
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