Bacterial species may exist, metagenomics reveal
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Bacterial species may exist, metagenomics reveal.
Whether or not bacterial species exist remains an unresolved issue of paramount theoretical as well as practical consequences. Here we review and synthesize the findings emerging from metagenomic surveys of natural microbial populations and argue that microbial communities are predominantly organized in genetically and ecologically discernible populations, which possess the attributes expected ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Microbiology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1462-2912
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02668.x