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Bacterial species and speciation.

Systematic biology - 1 Aug 2001

Cohan F M

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Bacteria are profoundly different from eukaryotes in their patterns of genetic exchange. Nevertheless, ecological diversity is organized in the same way across all of life: individual organisms fall into more less discrete clusters on the basis of their phenotypic, ecological, and DNA sequence characteristics. Each sequence cluster in the bacterial world appears to correspond to an "ecotype," defined as a...

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PMID: 12116650
DOI: 10.1080/10635150118398

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