Ecological selection for small microbial genomes along a temperate-to-thermal soil gradient
J. W. Sorensen, T. K. Dunivin, T. C. Tobin, A. Shade
The paper investigates microbial genome size along a soil temperature gradient, finding smaller genomes in hotter soils and linking this to ecological selection for thermotolerant microbes.
bioRxiv · Mar 5, 2018Microbiology