Generally overlooked fundamentals of bacterial genetics and ecology.

Les invasions biologiques en agriculture : point de vue de la biologie évolutive et de la génétique des population Biological invasions in agricultural settings: insights from evolutionary biology and population genetics

Invasion biology and agriculture are intimately related for several reasons and in particular because many agricultural pest species are recent invaders. In this paper we suggest that the reconstruction of invasion routes with population genetics-based methods can address fundamental questions in ecology and practical aspects of the management of biological invasions in agricultural settings. W...

Oligotyping: differentiating between closely related microbial taxa using 16S rRNA gene data

Bacteria comprise the most diverse domain of life on Earth, where they occupy nearly every possible ecological niche and play key roles in biological and chemical processes. Studying the composition and ecology of bacterial ecosystems and understanding their function is of prime importance. High-throughput sequencing technologies enable nearly comprehensive descriptions of bacterial diversity t...

Fundamentals of fungal molecular population genetic analyses.

The last two decades have seen tremendous growth in the development and application of molecular methods in the analyses of fungal species and populations. In this paper, I provide an overview of the molecular techniques and the basic analytical tools used to address various fundamental population and evolutionary genetic questions in fungi. With increasing availability and decreasing cost, DNA...

Non-random species loss in bacterial communities reduces antifungal volatile production.

The contribution of low-abundance microbial species to soil ecosystems is easily overlooked because there is considerable overlap between metabolic abilities (functional redundancy) of dominant and subordinate microbial species. Here we studied how loss of less abundant soil bacteria affected the production of antifungal volatiles, an important factor in the natural control of soil-borne pathog...

Animal Population Ecology and Control Fundamentals