MicrobiologyThe ISME JournalPeer-reviewed
Promiscuous and unbiased recombination underlies the sequence-discrete species of the SAR11 lineage in the deep ocean
Jianshu Zhao, Maria Pachiadaki, Roth E. Conrad…·Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis
The paper shows SAR11 bacteria use promiscuous recombination to form sequence-discrete species with lower ANI thresholds than other microbes.
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