title: Natural products in soil microbe interactions and evolution.
abstract: In recent years, bacterial interspecies interactions mediated by small molecule natural products have been found to give rise to a surprising array of phenotypes in soil-dwelling bacteria, especially among Streptomyces and Bacillus species. This review examines these interspecies interactions, and the natural products involved, as they have been presented in literature stemming from four disciplines: soil science, interspecies microbiology, ecology, and evolutionary biology. We also consider how these interactions fit into accepted paradigms of signaling, cueing, and coercion.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA. mtrax@berkeley.edu.
authors.forename: Matthew F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Traxler
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kolter
mesh_terms: D039903:Actinobacteria / Q000502:physiology; D001412:Bacillus subtilis / Q000502:physiology; D005075:Biological Evolution; D001688:Biological Products; D056265:Microbial Interactions; D015394:Molecular Structure; D012988:Soil Microbiology
chemical_list: D001688:Biological Products