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Allopatric divergence, secondary contact, and genetic isolation in wild yeast populations.
Current biology : CB - 6 Mar 2007
Kuehne Heidi A, Murphy Helen A, Francis Chantal A, Sniegowski Paul D
Abstract excerpt
In plants and animals, new biological species clearly have arisen as a byproduct of genetic divergence in allopatry. However, our understanding of the processes that generate new microbial species remains limited [1] despite the large contribution of microbes to the world's biodiversity. A recent hypothesis claims that microbes lack biogeographical divergence because their population sizes are large and their...
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