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SUBMITTER: Bobay LM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6186134 | biostudies-other | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Bobay Louis-Marie LM Ochman Howard H
BMC evolutionary biology 20181012 1
<h4>Background</h4>Knowledge of population-level processes is essential to understanding the efficacy of selection operating within a species. However, attempts at estimating effective population sizes (Ne) are particularly challenging in bacteria due to their extremely large census populations sizes, varying rates of recombination and arbitrary species boundaries.<h4>Results</h4>In this study, we estimated Ne for 153 species (152 bacteria and one archaeon) defined under a common framework and f ...[more]