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What Is Speciation?

PLoS genetics - 1 Mar 2016

Shapiro B Jesse, Leducq Jean-Baptiste, Mallet James

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Concepts and definitions of species have been debated by generations of biologists and remain controversial. Microbes pose a particular challenge because of their genetic diversity, asexual reproduction, and often promiscuous horizontal gene transfer (HGT). However, microbes also present an opportunity to study and understand speciation because of their rapid evolution, both in nature and in the lab, and small,...

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PMID: 27030977
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005860
PMCID: PMC4816541

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