Recent Trends in Bacterial Diversity and Evolution
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Phylogeny and Evolution".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 7893
Special Issue Editor
Interests: pseudomonas aeruginosa molecular genetics; bacterial evolution; biosurfactants.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The genetic diversity and metabolic versatility of bacteria is immense. These organisms have a central role in geochemical cycles, are crucial for the functioning of all ecosystems, form part of plants and animals’ microbiomes and are causing agents of important infection diseases. All these aspects of bacterial biology are the focus of research and exciting results are arising.
Bacterial genomes have characteristics not present in other organisms because they are mosaics that contain genes with different phylogenetic origin that are inherited by horizontal gene transfer. Because of this mosaicism, even strains belonging to the same bacterial species share only a fraction of their genomic information, which causes a serious theoretical and operational problem for bacterial taxonomy. Thus, bacterial evolution is a field with an intense theoretical debate which impacts other areas such as synthetic biology and the study of essential genes.
The high frequency of horizontal gene transfer among bacteria is the main cause of the high frequency of antibiotic resistant bacteria causing infection diseases. This problem is so important that it has been postulated that, in a few years, the increase in mortality caused by bacterial infections will reach levels seen in the pre-antibiotic era. Thus, the study of bacterial diversity and evolution has theoretical and practical importance.
The aim of this special issue of Diversity is to provide a platform where researchers working in the different aspects of bacterial diversity and evolution with different approaches and bacterial models, can publish their recent results, which will enable various perspectives of this exciting and challenging field to be shared and discussed.
Dr. Gloria Soberón-Chávez
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- bacterial genetic diversity
- bacterial metabolic versatility
- role of bacteria in geochemical cycles
- bacterial genomic plasticity
- theoretical frame of bacterial evolution
- bacterial taxonomy and ecology
- bacterial antibiotic resistance.
- bacterial symbiosis and parasitism
- horizontal gene transfer and bacterial evolution
- microbiome
