Ordering microbial diversity into ecologically and genetically cohesive units

We propose that microbial diversity must be viewed in light of gene flow and selection, which define units of genetic similarity, and of phenotype and ecological function, respectively. We discuss to what extent ecological and genetic units overlap to form cohesive populations in the wild, based on...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Shapiro, B. Jesse, Polz, Martin F
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Elsevier 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101684
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9296-3733