Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Bacterial adaptation is constrained in complex communities

  • Thomas Scheuerl,
  • Meirion Hopkins,
  • Reuben W. Nowell,
  • Damian W. Rivett,
  • Timothy G. Barraclough,
  • Thomas Bell

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14570-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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A species’ ability to adapt to a new environment may be influenced by both intrinsic factors and extrinsic factors. Here, Scheuerl et al. show that bacterial adaptation to low pH depends on not only its genome size and initial level of adaptation, but also the diversity of the community.