Abstract:Geographic separation is a principal factor for structuring populations of macroorganisms, with important consequences for evolution, by means of processes such as allopatric speciation. For free-living prokaryotes, implications of geographic separation on their evolution are more unclear. The limited phylogenetic resolution of commonly used markers such as 16S rRNA gene sequences have since long impeded prokaryotic population genetics. However, the vast amount of metagenome sequencing data generated during th… Show more
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