Microbial species and intraspecies units exist and are maintained by ecological cohesiveness coupled to high homologous recombination

Abstract Recent genomic analyses have revealed that microbial communities are predominantly composed of persistent, sequence-discrete species and intraspecies units (genomovars), but the mechanisms that create and maintain these units remain unclear. By analyzing closely-related isolate genomes from...

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Main Authors: Roth E. Conrad, Catherine E. Brink, Tomeu Viver, Luis M. Rodriguez-R, Borja Aldeguer-Riquelme, Janet K. Hatt, Stephanus N. Venter, Ramon Rossello-Mora, Rudolf Amann, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53787-0
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