Align to Define: Ecologically Meaningful Populations from Genomes.

Stolyar, Sergey; Marx, Christopher J · Cell · 2019

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Microbes in the same community but with distinct niches can have unique long stretches of perfect sequence identity due to recent genetic exchange. Arevalo et al. (2019) use this as a starting point for defining ecologically-relevant populations within a community and to identify the genes that appear to be driving divergence between populations.

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