rRNA Operon Copy Number Reflects Ecological Strategies of Bacteria

By J. Klappenbach, John Dunbar, Thomas M. Schmidt. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 2000

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Microbiomes in light of traits: A phylogenetic perspective (2015, background): “For instance, codon usage bias and ribosomal RNA (rRNA) operon copy number provide continuous estimates of potential growth strategies (30, 31).”
Soil Bacterial and Fungal Response to Wildfires in the Canadian Boreal Forest Across a Burn Severity Gradient (2019, background): “It has been suggested that this trait may allow bacteria to grow more quickly (Klappenbach et al., 2000; Vieira-Silva and Rocha, 2010), allowing them to rapidly take advantage of post-fire resources.”
Three Genomes from the Phylum Acidobacteria Provide Insight into the Lifestyles of These Microorganisms in Soils (2009, background): “of slow growth and a K-selected lifestyle (42, 80).”
Metagenomics: genomic analysis of microbial communities. (2004, background): “The 16S rRNA genes do not meet this standard because microorganisms differ in the number of rrn operons they carry in their genomes, with a range of 1 to 15 (58).”
Worlds within worlds: evolution of the vertebrate gut microbiota (2008, background): “Indeed, a high copy number of 16S rRNA genes, which correlates with fast growth rate”
Bifidobacteria and Their Role as Members of the Human Gut Microbiota (2016, background): “The number of rRNA operons within bifidobacterial genomes typically ranges from two to five, and it has been suggested that the number of rRNA operons present on a genome is correlated to the adaptation of a particular species to environmental conditions (Klappenbach et al., 2000).”
Determination of bacterial load by real-time PCR using a broad-range (universal) probe and primers set. (2002, background): “The number of replication forks is directly related to the generation time, t d , which in turn depends on the metabolic status of the bacteria at the time of sampling (Neidhardt et al., 1990; Klappenbach et al., 2000).”
Microorganisms as indicators of soil health (2002, background): “The ratio of oligotrophs (bacteria that require a low nutrient input) to copiotrophs (bacteria that require a high nutrient input) has been proposed to reflect the nutrient stress tolerance of the species present in soil (van Bruggen et al. 2000; Klappenbach et al. 2000; De Leij et al. 1993; Hattori”