Maintenance of Sympatric and Allopatric Populations in Free-Living Terrestrial Bacteria
Due to the promiscuous exchange of genetic material and asexual reproduction, delineating microbial species (and, by extension, populations) remains challenging. Because of this, the vast majority of microbial studies assessing population structure often compare divergent strains from disparate envi...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2019-10-01
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Series: | mBio |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02361-19 |