期刊
ASTROBIOLOGY
卷 12, 期 7, 页码 634-640出版社
MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2011.0768
关键词
Microbial ecology; Microbial mats; Evolution; Horizontal gene transfer; Metabolism
资金
- DGAPA/UNAM
- UC-Mexus
- NASA
- NSF
- CONACyT-FONSEC SEMARNAT [2006-C01-23459]
- CONACYT-SEP [50507]
- WWF-Alianza Fundacion Carlos Slim
We discuss the potential interactions among travel (dispersal and gene flow), bacterial sex (mainly as horizontal gene transfer), and food (metabolic plasticity and responses to nutrient availability) in shaping microbial communities. With regard to our work at a unique desert oasis, the Cuatro Cienegas Basin in Coahuila, Mexico, we propose that diversification and low phosphorus availability, in combination with mechanisms for nutrient recycling and community cohesion, result in enhanced speciation through reproductive as well as geographic isolation. We also discuss these mechanisms in the broader sense of ecology and evolution. Of special relevance to astrobiology and central to evolutionary biology, we ask why there are so many species on Earth and provide a working hypothesis and a conceptual framework within which to consider the question.
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