Crossposting this from my Tree of Life blog:
I am going to be running a journal club this quarter at UC Davis for the Population Biology Graduate Group. The topic is Co-evoution of Microbiomes and Hosts.
Meeting time is 12:10-1:00 PM if you want to participate let me know.
A link to the Draft Outline is here. And I am trying to embed it in this post …
If anyone has other ideas for interesting papers on co-evolution of microbiomes and hosts, please let me know and I will add them to the list. Stay tuned as each week I will post about the discussion topics and notes from the discussions.
I highly recommend looking at the work from Jens Walter’s group on Lactobacillus reuteri, whose phylogenetic, ecological, and animal work examining the colonization of vertebrate gut ecosystems by this species describes several host-microbe evolution and the products of this selective pressure at several levels.
http://www.nature.com/ismej/journal/v4/n3/abs/ismej2009123a.html
http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1004057
http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1001314
http://www.pnas.org/content/108/Supplement_1/4645.short
http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-micro-090110-102830