Evolving Concepts of Bacterial Species

Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 148-157

  Barraclough, Timothy G ^a   Balbi, Kevin J ^a   Ellis, Richard J ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b VETERINARY LABORATORIES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Divergent selection; Diversification; Genomes; Horizontal gene transfer; Lateral gene transfer; Multi locus sequence types; Niches; Prokaryotes; Recombination; Speciation; Species

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84861779802     PISSN: 00713260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-012-9181-8     Document Type: Article

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