Robert G. Beiko

Lateral gene transfer shapes the distribution of nitrogen fixation within a cosmopolitan clade of marine Thalassolituus

Biological nitrogen fixation converts dinitrogen gas into ammonia, supplying new bioavailable nitrogen to marine ecosystems, but the evolutionary processes shaping its distribution among heterotrophic bacteria remain unresolved. Thalassolituus, a genus within the family Oceanospirillaceae (order Oceanospirillales), is...