The rise of diversity in metabolic platforms across the Candidate Phyla Radiation

Alexander L. Jaffe (1) , Cindy Castelle (1, 2) , Paula Matheus Carnevali (1) , Simonetta Gribaldo (3) , Jillian Banfield (1, 2)

1 UC Berkeley - University of California [Berkeley]
2 Chan Zuckerberg BioHub [San Francisco, CA]
3 Biologie Evolutive de la Cellule Microbienne - Evolutionary Biology of the Microbial Cell

A unifying feature of the bacterial Candidate Phyla Radiation (CPR) is a limited and highly variable repertoire of biosynthetic capabilities. However, the distribution of metabolic traits across the CPR and the evolutionary processes underlying them are incompletely resolved.

Keywords: Bacterial carbon metabolism; Candidate Phyla Radiation; Comparative genomics; Lateral gene transfer; Metabolic evolution; NiFe hydrogenase; Phylogenomics

Domains: Life Sciences [q-bio]; Microbiology and Parasitology

Alexander L. Jaffe, Cindy Castelle, Paula Matheus Carnevali, Simonetta Gribaldo, Jillian Banfield. The rise of diversity in metabolic platforms across the Candidate Phyla Radiation. BMC Biology, 2020, 18 (1), pp.69. ⟨10.1186/s12915-020-00804-5⟩. ⟨pasteur-02943015⟩