Inferring speciation processes from patterns of natural variation in microbial genomes

Systematic Biology

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 926-935

  Krause, David J ^a   Whitaker, Rachel J ^a  

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

Author keywords

Barriers to gene flow; differentiation; recombination; selection

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

BACTERIA; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, BACTERIAL; GENOMICS; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 84946113520     PISSN: 10635157     EISSN: 1076836X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syv050     Document Type: Article

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