Patterns of gene flow define species of thermophilic Archaea

PLoS Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Cadillo Quiroz, Hinsby ^a,d   Didelot, Xavier ^b   Held, Nicole L ^a   Herrera, Alfa ^a   Darling, Aaron ^c   Reno, Michael L ^a   Krause, David J ^a   Whitaker, Rachel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL SPECIALIZATION; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMIC ISLAND; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SULFOLOBUS; SULFOLOBUS ISLANDICUS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); SULFOLOBUS ISLANDICUS;

BASE SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; GENE FLOW; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RUSSIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SULFOLOBUS;

EID: 84857470045     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001265     Document Type: Article

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