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Comment
. 2016 Jun 7;7(3):e00784-16.
doi: 10.1128/mBio.00784-16.

History Leaves Its Mark on Soil Bacterial Diversity

Jennifer B H Martiny  1
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History Leaves Its Mark on Soil Bacterial Diversity

Jennifer B H Martiny. mBio. .

Abstract

Dispersal is closely tied to the origin and maintenance of microbial diversity. With its focus on a narrow group of soil bacteria, recent work by Andam and colleagues on Streptomyces has provided perhaps the strongest support so far that some bacterial diversity in soils can be attributed to regional endemism (C. P. Andam et al., mBio 7:e02200-15, 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02200-15). This means that dispersal is limited enough to allow for evolutionary diversification. Further analyses suggest that signatures of climate conditions more than 10,000 years ago can be detected in contemporary populations of this genus. These legacies have implications for how future climate change might alter soil microbial diversity.

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