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  • Microbial communities are predominantly composed of species and intraspecies units, but the mechanisms behind the formation and persistence of these units are unclear. Here, the authors provide experimental evidence supporting that ecological cohesiveness coupled to unbiased horizontal gene flow, mediated by homologous recombination, often underlie these diversity patterns.

    • Roth E. Conrad
    • Catherine E. Brink
    • Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 15, P: 1-12

  • What a microbial strain is and how many strains make up a natural bacterial population remain elusive concepts. Here, Viver et al. analyse Salinibacter ruber isolates and metagenomes from two solar salterns, revealing gaps within the species sequence space that they use to define and quantify sub-species categories, such as genomovars and strains, that co-exist in a saltern pond.

    • Tomeu Viver
    • Roth E. Conrad
    • Ramon Rossello-Mora
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 15, P: 1-13

  • African microbiomes are much neglected and previous studies have disproportionately focused on the Global North. Africa harbours substantial genetic diversity in terms of its ecosystems, humans and animals. In this Comment, we highlight the lack of information regarding microbiome datasets from Africa and propose mechanisms for increasing microbiome research in Africa.

    • Thulani P. Makhalanyane
    • Oliver K. I. Bezuidt
    • Colin Murrell
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 21, P: 479-481

  • In this Consensus Statement, the authors discuss the issue of naming uncultivated prokaryotic microorganisms, which currently do not have a formal nomenclature system due to a lack of type material or cultured representatives, and propose two recommendations including the recognition of DNA sequences as type material.

    • Alison E. Murray
    • John Freudenstein
    • Anna-Louise Reysenbach
    ReviewsOpen Access
    Nature Microbiology
    Volume: 5, P: 987-994