Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zürich, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland; Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
J Mol Biol. 2019 Jun 28;431(14):2487-2492. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2019.05.004. Epub 2019 May 11.
Microbes are often thought of as individual cells. However, in their natural habitats, they typically exist in the context of other cells, be they of the same or different species. How these cells interact in space and time is key to their ecology and evolution. In this perspective, we consider the implications of this in terms of the future of microbiological research. This article is part of the special issue "Microbiology: how to bridge mechanisms and phenomenology" edited by Suckjoon Jun.
微生物通常被认为是单个细胞。然而，在它们的自然栖息地中，它们通常存在于其他细胞的环境中，无论是相同的还是不同的物种。这些细胞如何在空间和时间上相互作用是它们生态学和进化的关键。从这个角度来看，我们考虑了这对未来微生物学研究的影响。本文是由 Suckjoon Jun 编辑的特刊“微生物学：如何弥合机制和现象学”的一部分。
