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Recombination produces coherent bacterial species clusters in both core and accessory genomes
7 Oct 2015
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Population samples show bacterial genomes can be divided into a core of ubiquitous genes and accessory genes that are present in a fraction of isolates. The ecological significance of this variation in gene content remains unclear. However, microbiologists agree that a bacterial species should be 'genomically coherent', even though there is no consensus on how this should be determined. RESULTS: We...
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