A bacterial ecocline in Klebsiella pneumoniae may explain its backboned phylogeny.

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The genetic structure of bacterial species is most often interpreted in terms of demographic processes such as clonal descent, but can also reflect natural selection and hence give functional and ecological insight. Klebsiella pneumoniae (KP) disperses effectively around the world and has high recombination rates, which should result in the species having a well-mixed gene pool. Nevertheless, phylogenies based on...

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