BIOS E-127 – 08.10.20 Microbial species, biogeography & population genetics.
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BIOS E-127 – 08.10. Microbial species, biogeography & population genetics
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Transcript of BIOS E-127 – 08.10.20 Microbial species, biogeography & population genetics.
Species
“Species are groups of actually or potentially interbreeding populations, which are reproductively isolated from other such groups” (Mayr, 1942)
Microbial species
“…a category that circumscribes a (preferably) genomically coherent group of individual isolates/strains sharing a high degree of similarity in (many) independent features, comparatively tested under highly standardized conditions” (Stackebrandt et al., 2002)
“…characterized by a certain degree of phenotypic consistency, showing 70% of DNA-DNA binding and over 97% of 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene-sequence identity” (Vandamme et al., 1996)