Free-Living, Psychrotrophic Bacteria of the Genus <i>Psychrobacter</i> Are Descendants of Pathobionts
Bacteria and archaea predate the evolution of eukaryotic cells; logically, it follows that host-associated microbes have evolved from free-living ones. The evolutionary transition of microbes in the opposite direction, from host associated toward free living, is theoretically possible and...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2021-04-01
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| Series: | mSystems |
| Online Access: | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSystems.00258-21 |