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SUBMITTER: Kraemer SA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5069515 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kraemer Susanne A SA Kassen Rees R
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20161001 1840
Strong divergent selection leading to local adaptation is often invoked to explain the staggering diversity of bacteria in microbial ecosystems. However, examples of specialization by bacterial clones to alternative niches in nature are rare. Here, we investigate the extent of local adaptation in natural isolates of pseudomonads and their relatives to their soil environments across both space and time. Though most isolates grew well in most environments, patchily distributed low-quality environm ...[more]