Population Genomics: How Bacterial Species Form and Why They Don't Exist

Overview

Journal Curr Biol

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Biology

Date 2012 Jun 9

PMID 22677288

Citations 18

Authors

W Ford Doolittle

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Abstract

Two processes suggested to drive bacterial speciation - periodic selection and recombination - are generally thought to be mutually opposed. Recent work shows that data taken as evidence supporting the former may be explained by the latter, raising further problems for the idea of bacterial 'species'.

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