The underlying process of early ecological and genetic differentiation in a facultative mutualistic Sinorhizobium meliloti population
Abstract The question of how genotypic and ecological units arise and spread in natural microbial populations remains controversial in the field of evolutionary biology. Here, we investigated the early stages of ecological and genetic differentiation in a highly clonal sympatric Sinorhizobium melilo...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2017-04-01
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Series: | Scientific Reports |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00730-7 |