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SUBMITTER: Papke RT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1955782 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Papke R Thane RT Zhaxybayeva Olga O Feil Edward J EJ Sommerfeld Katrin K Muise Denise D Doolittle W Ford WF
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20070821 35
Prokaryotic (bacterial and archaeal) species definitions and the biological concepts that underpin them entail clustering (cohesion) among individuals, in terms of genome content and gene sequence similarity. Homologous recombination can maintain gene sequence similarity within, while permitting divergence between, clusters and is thus the basis for recent efforts to apply the Biological Species Concept in prokaryote systematics and ecology. In this study, we examine isolates of the haloarchaeal ...[more]