Genome Rearrangement Shapes Prochlorococcus Ecological Adaptation

Wei Yan ^[1] ; Shuzhen Wei ^[1] ; Qiong Wang ^[1] ; Xilin Xiao ^[1] ; Qinglu Zeng ^[2] ; Nianzhi Jiao ^[1] ; Rui Zhang ^[1]
1. [1] Xiamen University
  
  Xiamen University
  
  China
2. [2] bDivision of Life Science, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China; cDepartment of Ocean Science, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
Localización: Applied and Environmental Microbiology, ISSN 0099-2240, Vol. 84, Nº 17, 2018
Idioma: inglés
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- Prochlorococcus, the most abundant and smallest known free-living photosynthetic microorganism, plays a key role in marine ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles. Prochlorococcus genome evolution is a fundamental issue related to how Prochlorococcus clades adapted to different ecological niches. Recent studies revealed that the gene gain and loss is crucial to the clade differentiation. The significance of our research is that we interpreted the Prochlorococcus genome evolution from the perspective of genome structure and associated the genome rearrangement with the Prochlorococcus clade differentiation and subsequent ecological adaptation.