The phylum Fibrobacteres is recognized as a major line of descent in the bacterial domain but is understudied due to limited representation by axenic cultures. The only described genus in this lineage ...

Genome sequencing has revealed that horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is a major evolutionary process in bacteria. Although it is generally assumed that closely related organisms engage in genetic ...

In the early 2000s, molecular data began to show an unexpected amount of genetic diversity in this “phylum of one” (Voigt et al., 2004; Signorovitch et al., 2007; Eitel et al., 2013). Ongoing 16S ...