I mean whether the possibility is higher for closer related bacteria species to have similar functions / activities in term of their capability of producing functional proteins or metabolite products or having metabolic activities. How accurately can we infer bacterial functions in the environment from their 16S rRNA gene sequences obtained by deep sequencing techniques?
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Here is one recent paper showing that 93% of the 89 functional traits were significantly non-randomly distributed, which suggested that vertical inheritance was generally important for the phylogenetic dispersion of functional traits in microorganisms.
http://www.nature.com/ismej/journal/v7/n4/full/ismej2012160a.html
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