Origins of bacterial diversity through horizontal genetic transfer and adaptation to new ecological niches.

By J. Wiedenbeck, Frederick M. Cohan. FEMS Microbiology Reviews, 2011

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Species concepts and speciation factors in cyanobacteria, with connection to the problems of diversity and classification (2015, background): “Conversely, Cohan (2011) argues that cohesion is not maintained by barriers of recombination, but rather concerned with ecological diversiﬁcation, which precedes barriers of recombination (Wiedenbeck and Cohan 2011).”
Horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance genes in clinical environments. (2019, background): “Gene transfer by each of the 110 three mechanisms is favoured between closely related organisms, but can occur between 111 phylogenetically distant organisms (Wiedenbeck and Cohan 2011).”
The Pangenome: Diversity, Dynamics and Evolution of Genomes (2020, background): “The large prevalence of gene sweeps over genome sweeps is somewhat surprising considering that prokaryotes, as asexual organisms, are thought to display modest rates of gene flow (Wiedenbeck and Cohan 2011).”
Environmental factors influencing the development and spread of antibiotic resistance (2017, neutral): “However, for resistance genes to be horizontally transferred from environmental to pathogenic bacteria they need to, at least temporarily, share the same habitat (Matte-Tailliez et al. 2002; Wiedenbeck and Cohan 2011).”