Biological species in the viral world

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 115, Issue 23, 2018, Pages 6040-6045

  Bobay, Louis Marie ^a,b   Ochman, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Asexuality; Biological species concept; Gene flow; Recombination; Speciation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; BIOLOGICAL SPECIES CONCEPT; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; GENE FLOW; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TREE OF LIFE; VIRAL TROPISM; VIRUS CLASSIFICATION; VIRUS GENOME; VIRUS RECOMBINATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HOST RANGE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION;

BACTERIOPHAGES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOME, VIRAL; HOST SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUSES;

EID: 85047983083     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1717593115     Document Type: Article

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