Adaptive radiation by waves of gene transfer leads to fine-scale resource partitioning in marine microbes

Hehemann, Jan -Hendrik; Arevalo, Philip; Datta, Manoshi S.; Yu, Xiaoqian; Corzett, Christopher H.; Henschel, Andreas; Preheim, Sarah P.; Timberlake, Sonia; Alm, Eric J.; Polz, Martin F.

doi:10.1038/ncomms12860

Title: Adaptive radiation by waves of gene transfer leads to fine-scale resource partitioning in marine microbes

Journal Article · Thu Sep 22 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12860· OSTI ID:1437228

Hehemann, Jan -Hendrik ^[1];

^[1]; Datta, Manoshi S. ^[1]; Yu, Xiaoqian ^[1]; Corzett, Christopher H. ^[1]; Henschel, Andreas ^[2]; Preheim, Sarah P. ^[3]; Timberlake, Sonia ^[4]; Alm, Eric J. ^[5]; Polz, Martin F. ^[1]

Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Masdar Institute, Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD (United States)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); AbVitro, Inc., Boston, MA (United States)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA (United States)

Adaptive radiations are important drivers of niche filling, since they rapidly adapt a single clade of organisms to ecological opportunities. Although thought to be common for animals and plants, adaptive radiations have remained difficult to document for microbes in the wild. Here we describe a recent adaptive radiation leading to fine-scale ecophysiological differentiation in the degradation of an algal glycan in a clade of closely related marine bacteria. Horizontal gene transfer is the primary driver in the diversification of the pathway leading to several ecophysiologically differentiated Vibrionaceae populations adapted to different physical forms of alginate. Furthermore, pathway architecture is predictive of function and ecology, underscoring that horizontal gene transfer without extensive regulatory changes can rapidly assemble fully functional pathways in microbes.

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