Relevance of prokaryotic subspecies in the age of genomics

The availability of multiple gene sequences, and in particular full genome sequence data, for microbial strains has changed how taxonomists delineate subspecies belonging to the Archaea and Bacteria. Well-defined phylogenetic lineages that share higher genome similarity values compared to the widely...

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Main Authors: S.N. Venter, M. Palmer, E.T. Steenkamp
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-07-01
Series:New Microbes and New Infections
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2052297522000762