The genomics of microbial domestication in the fermented food environment

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• 作者：John G Gibbons¹ ; ^{jgibbons@clarku.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; David C Rinker² ; ³
• 刊名：Current Opinion in Genetics & Development
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：35
• 期：Complete
• 页码：1-8
• 全文大小：582 K

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Shortly after the agricultural revolution, the domestication of bacteria, yeasts, and molds, played an essential role in enhancing the stability, quality, flavor, and texture of food products. These domestication events were probably the result of human food production practices that entailed the continual recycling of isolated microbial communities in the presence of abundant agricultural food sources. We suggest that within these novel agrarian food niches the metabolic requirements of those microbes became regular and predictable resulting in rapid genomic specialization through such mechanisms as pseudogenization, genome decay, interspecific hybridization, gene duplication, and horizontal gene transfer. The ultimate result was domesticated strains of microorganisms with enhanced fermentative capacities.