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Biology's next revolution
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The emerging picture of microbes as gene-swapping collectives demands a revision of such concepts as organism, species and evolution itself. Will the traditional units of biology — the organism and the species — be swept away in the flood of new genomics data? In the first of a new Essay series, Nigel Goldenfeld and Carl Woese argue that, for microbes at least, it could happen. Free-living marine microbes, unlike their lab-grown 'clonal' cousins, are adept at acquiring useful characteristics from a shared pool of genetic material. It's beginning to look as if a genetic continuum, rather than a series of discrete species, is the natural condition in many instances.
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- Authors
- Goldenfeld, N., & Woese, C.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2007-01-24
- Volume
- 445
- Issue
- 7126
- Pages
- 369-369
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W2042597759
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- 235
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 9.21
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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