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Phylogenetic organization of bacterial activity.
The ISME journal - 1 Sept 2016
Morrissey Ember M, Mau Rebecca L, Schwartz Egbert, Caporaso J Gregory, Dijkstra Paul, van Gestel Natasja, Koch Benjamin J, Liu Cindy M, Hayer Michaela, McHugh Theresa A, Marks Jane C, Price Lance B, Hungate Bruce A
Abstract excerpt
Phylogeny is an ecologically meaningful way to classify plants and animals, as closely related taxa frequently have similar ecological characteristics, functional traits and effects on ecosystem processes. For bacteria, however, phylogeny has been argued to be an unreliable indicator of an organism's ecology owing to evolutionary processes more common to microbes such as gene loss and lateral gene transfer, as...
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