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A systematics for discovering the fundamental units of bacterial diversity.

Current biology : CB - 15 May 2007

Cohan Frederick M, Perry Elizabeth B

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Bacterial systematists face unique challenges when trying to identify ecologically meaningful units of biological diversity. Whereas plant and animal systematists are guided by a theory-based concept of species, microbiologists have yet to agree upon a set of ecological and evolutionary properties that will serve to define a bacterial species. Advances in molecular techniques have given us a glimpse of the...

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PMID: 17502094
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2007.03.032

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