Discovery and classification of ecological diversity in the bacterial world: the role of DNA sequence data.

doi:10.1099/00207713-47-4-1145

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Discovery and classification of ecological diversity in the bacterial world: the role of DNA sequence data.

International journal of systematic bacteriology - 1 Oct 1997

Palys T, Nakamura L K, Cohan F M

Abstract excerpt

All living organisms fall into discrete clusters of closely related individuals on the basis of gene sequence similarity. Evolutionary genetic theory predicts that in the bacterial world, each sequence similarity cluster should correspond to an ecologically distinct population. Indeed, surveys of...

Topics

Bacteria
Cluster Analysis
DNA, Bacterial
Databases as Topic
Genes, Bacterial
Genetic Variation
Genetics, Population
Models, Genetic
Phylogeny
Sequence Analysis, DNA

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