Soil bacterial populations are shaped by recombination and gene-specific selection across a grassland meadow.

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Soil microbial diversity is often studied from the perspective of community composition, but less is known about genetic heterogeneity within species. The relative impacts of clonal interference, gene-specific selection, and recombination in many abundant but rarely cultivated soil microbes remain unknown. Here we track genome-wide population genetic variation for 19 highly abundant bacterial species sampled from...

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