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Evidence for environmental and ecological selection in a microbe with no geographic limits to gene flow.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 7 Mar 2017
Whittaker Kerry A, Rynearson Tatiana A
Abstract excerpt
The ability for organisms to disperse throughout their environment is thought to strongly influence population structure and thus evolution of diversity within species. A decades-long debate surrounds processes that generate and support high microbial diversity, particularly in the ocean. The debate concerns whether diversification occurs primarily through geographic partitioning (where distance limits gene flow)...
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