Tracking contemporary microbial evolution in a changing ocean
2023
Brennan, Georgina | Logares, Ramiro | European Commission | Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España) | Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España)
10 pages, 2 figures, 3 boxes
Mostrar más [+] Menos [-]Ocean microbes are fundamental for the functioning of the Earth system. Yet, our understanding of how they are reacting to global change in terms of evolution is limited. Microbes typically grow in large populations and reproduce quickly, which may allow them to rapidly adapt to environmental stressors compared to larger organisms. However, genetic evidence of contemporary evolution in wild microbes is scarce. We must begin coordinated efforts to establish new microbial time-series and explore novel tools, experiments and data to fill this knowledge gap. The development of coordinated microbial “genomic” observatories will provide the unprecedented opportunity to track contemporary microbial evolution in the ocean and explore the role of evolution in enabling wild microbes to respond to global change
Mostrar más [+] Menos [-]GB received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research 434 and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 895338. This work was supported by the project MINIME (PID2019-105775RB-I00, AEI, Spain) to RL as well as funding from the Spanish government through the ‘Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence’ accreditation (CEX2019-000928-S)
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