MicrobiologyNature CommunicationsPeer-reviewed
Microbial species exist and are maintained by ecological cohesiveness coupled to high homologous recombination.
Roth E. Conrad, Catherine E. Brink, Tomeu Viver…·Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis
The paper identifies ecological cohesiveness and homologous recombination as mechanisms maintaining microbial species and genomovars in two bacterial species.