A species concept for bacteria based on adaptive divergence

Trends in Microbiology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-7

  Vos, Michiel ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S;

ADAPTATION; BACILLUS ANTHRACIS; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BIOGEOGRAPHY; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; EVOLUTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MYCOBACTERIUM BOVIS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC SPECIATION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 78650738921     PISSN: 0966842X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2010.10.003     Document Type: Short Survey

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