How can microbial population genomics inform community ecology?

Populations are fundamental units of ecology and evolution, but can we define them for bacteria and archaea in a biologically meaningful way? Here, we review why population structure is difficult to recognize in microbes and how recent advances in measuring contemporary gene flow allow us to identif...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: VanInsberghe, David Stephen, Arevalo, Philip Alexander, Chien, Diana M., Polz, Martin F
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2020
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/126138