Microbial species exist and are maintained by ecological cohesiveness coupled to high homologous recombination.
R. E. Conrad, C. E. Brink, T. Viver, L. M. Rodriguez-R, B. Aldeguer Riquelme, J. Hatt, S. N. Venter, R. Amann, R. Rossello-Mora, K. T. Konstantinidis
The paper identifies ecological cohesiveness and homologous recombination as mechanisms maintaining microbial species and genomovars in two bacterial species.
bioRxiv · May 25, 2024 · PreprintMicrobiology