Neutral theory, microbial practice: Challenges in bacterial population genetics

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 1338-1347

  Rocha, Eduardo P C ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Demography; Horizontal gene transfer; Recombination; Selection; Species definition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIATION; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEUTRAL GENE THEORY; POPULATION GENETICS; SAMPLING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; BACTERIUM; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS;

BACTERIA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC DRIFT; GENETICS, POPULATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 85059542698     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msy078     Document Type: Article

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