title: Fine-scale recombination and adaptive radiation could be linked.
abstract: The difficult reconstruction of the evolutionary history of the major surface protein gene oprF highlighted an adaptive radiation in the Pseudomonas fluorescens group. The recent work of Hao (2013) showed that partial recombination events in oprF gene occurred specifically in a P. fluorescens lineage under ecological niche segregation. So, I suggest that identification of lineage-specific fine-scale recombination may be a way to detect putative adaptive radiation in bacteria.
authors.forename: Josselin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bodilis
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny; D011549:Pseudomonas / Q000235:genetics*; D011995:Recombination, Genetic
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins
keywords: Adaptive radiation; LBA; Long-Branch Attraction artifact; Phylogenetic incongruence; Pseudomonas; Recombination; oprF