Fabiano L. Thompson

TL;DR: Vibrios harbour a wealth of diverse genomes as revealed by different genomic techniques including amplified fragment length polymorphism, multilocus sequence typing, repetetive extragenic palindrome PCR, ribotyping, and whole-genome sequencing, which are probably important driving forces in the evolution and speciation of vibrios.

TL;DR: The Zika virus genome was detected in amniotic fluid samples of two pregnant women in Brazil whose fetuses were diagnosed with microcephaly and results suggest that the virus can cross the placental barrier.

TL;DR: The current and future impact of multilocus nucleotide-sequence-based approaches to prokaryotic systematics are discussed and the potential, and difficulties, of assigning species status to biologically or ecologically meaningful sequence clusters are considered.

TL;DR: How adaptation to novel environments by the modification of temperature tolerance limits has shaped historical patterns of global ecological diversification in the B. cereus Group is illustrated.

TL;DR: The Piggyback-the-Winner model wherein temperate dynamics become increasingly important in ecosystems with high microbial densities is proposed; thus ‘more microbes, fewer viruses’ is proposed.