Ordering microbial diversity into ecologically and genetically cohesive units
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Ordering microbial diversity into ecologically and genetically cohesive units.
We propose that microbial diversity must be viewed in light of gene flow and selection, which define units of genetic similarity, and of phenotype and ecological function, respectively. We discuss to what extent ecological and genetic units overlap to form cohesive populations in the wild, based on recent evolutionary modeling and on evidence from some of the first microbial populations studied...
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عنوان ژورنال: Trends in Microbiology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0966-842X
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2014.02.006