Ecological fitness, genomic islands and bacterial pathogenicity

By J. Hacker, É. Carniel. EMBO Reports, 2001

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Linking pangenomes and metagenomes: the Prochlorococcus metapangenome (2018, background): “…contribute to the ongoing debate on the origin, evolution and ecological role of hypervariable genomic islands within microbial populations ( Hacker & Carniel, 2001 ; Coleman et al., 2006 ; Wilhelm et al., 2007 ; Juhas et al., 2009 ; Fernández-Gómez et al., 2012 ; Vineis et al., 2016 ).”
The rhizosphere as a reservoir for opportunistic human pathogenic bacteria. (2005, background): “Genes responsible for pathogenicity or fitness of bacteria often occur as genomic islands, which are blocks of DNA with signatures of mobile genetic elements (Hacker and Carniel, 2001).”
Species concepts and speciation factors in cyanobacteria, with connection to the problems of diversity and classification (2015, background): “The shell genome genes do not seem to be randomly dispersed over the chromosome, but rather concentrated within genomic islands with frequent HGT and HR events (Hacker and Carniel 2001; Rodriguez-Valera et al. 2009).”
Survival of Escherichia coli in the environment: fundamental and public health aspects (2011, background): “A role of the ybt operon as a possible ‘saprophytic island’ can be postulated because of its wide occurrence in bacteria of divergent lifestyles, including E. coli strains of phylogenetic groups A, B1, B2, D and E (Hacker and Carniel, 2001).”