title:Genomics and the bacterial species problem
author:W Ford Doolittle and R Thane Papke
year:2006
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abstract:
Whether or not bacteria have species is a perennially vexatious question. Given what we now know
about variation among bacterial genomes, we argue that there is no intrinsic reason why the
processes driving diversification and adaptation must produce groups of individuals sufficiently
coherent in their genetic and phenotypic properties to merit the designation ‘species’ - although
sometimes they might.
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