generalist

Trait evidence (2)

• DOI:10.1093/femsec/fiaa240

  Organisms are often categorized as generalists or specialists, corresponding to broad or narrow niche requirements

  Bell and Bell frame bacterial generalism by broad niche requirements across environmental axes such as temperature tolerance and resource use.

• DOI:10.1038/s41559-023-02027-7

  Generalists can survive in many environments, whereas specialists are restricted to a single environment.

  The social-niche-breadth study defines generalists and specialists while introducing a niche-breadth score for prokaryotic genomes across environments.