Microbial Ecology and Evolution Are Essential for Understanding ...

Understanding how populations of SARS-CoV-2 grow, disperse, and evolve is of critical importance to managing the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ecology and evolution, especially of microbes, have never been more relevant than in our global fight against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

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Ecology and evolution, especially of microbes, have never been more relevant than in our global fight against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

Microbial ecology and evolution is key to pandemics

These activities cause changes in microbial ecology, leading to evolution due to mutation and recombination. This review hypothesized that an understanding of ...

Microbial Ecology and Evolution | The Gibbons Lab

Microbial communities form the foundation of our planetary life support system. We study how bacterial populations coalesce to form complex ecological ...

making the most of genomes to understand microbial ecology and ...

Phylogenetic trees are important in microbial ecology, because to understand an ecosystem you need to understand its evolutionary history across multiple levels ...

Microbial ecology and evolution | Microbiology - Oxford Academic

Eukaryotic microorganisms are similarly plentiful and essential for the sustenance of plants and animals. Bacteria, archaea, and single-celled eukaryotes are ...

Very early evolution from the perspective of microbial ecology

Here, we synthesize the current understanding of organismal and genome evolution from the perspective of microbial ecology and apply these ...

Challenges in microbial ecology: building predictive understanding ...

These microbial communities (MCs) have crucial roles in global climate regulation, human health and industrial biotechnology. Understanding, ...

Ecology and evolution in microbial systems: the generation and ...

Microbial ecology is in a renaissance of sorts, with microbiologists increasingly using ecological and evolutionary theory to inform fundamental questions about ...

Microbial Ecology And Evolution - Simons Foundation

Today, microbes continue to evolve in response to an ever-changing environment, and microbial ecosystems still govern the biogeochemical cycling of the planet ...

Microbial Evolution & Ecology - Microbiology, Genetics, & Immunology

Recent research has focused on examining the ecological niches of microbes colonizing humans (the microbiome), with an emphasis on the influence of normal flora ...

Models in Microbial Ecology - Rutgers University - Research Portal

Ecological theory and numerical modelling are essential for developing a deeper understanding of the mechanisms that shape the assembly and evolution of ...

Ecology and evolution of host-associated microbes

Many fundamental questions regarding population dynamics and microevolution of microbiome communities remain to be established. Because microbes evolve so ...

Research | Microbial Ecology and Evolution | University of Helsinki

Understanding the ecology and evolution of microbial and microbe-host interactions is important in its own right as microbes typically live in multi-species ...

Molecular musings in microbial ecology and evolution | Biology Direct

A few major discoveries have influenced how ecologists and evolutionists study microbes. Here, in the format of an interview, we answer questions.

Putting science back into microbial ecology: a question of approach

Identification of key scientific questions, research driven by meaningful hypotheses and adoption of scientific method are essential for ...

Understanding and Predicting Microbial Evolutionary Dynamics

Solutions to these and many other emerging issues will require an in-depth understanding of the evolutionary dynamics of microbial communities, to enable us to ...

The role of ecological theory in microbial ecology - Nature

Theory has an essential role in developing an understanding of, and explaining the interactions between, microorganisms and their physical, chemical and ...

How do microbes grow in nature? The role of population dynamics ...

Population dynamics have wide-ranging consequences for ecology and evolution, determining how species interact and which mutations fix.