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A genomic distance based on MUM indicates discontinuity between most bacterial species and genera.

Journal of bacteriology - 1 Jan 2009

Deloger Marc, El Karoui Meriem, Petit Marie-Agnès

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The fundamental unit of biological diversity is the species. However, a remarkable extent of intraspecies diversity in bacteria was discovered by genome sequencing, and it reveals the need to develop clear criteria to group strains within a species. Two main types of analyses used to quantify intraspecies variation at the genome level are the average nucleotide identity (ANI), which detects the DNA conservation...

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PMID: 18978054
DOI: 10.1128/JB.01202-08
PMCID: PMC2612450

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