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Evolutionary ecology theory — microbial population structure
Arne Traulsen,Michael Sieber +1 more
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In this paper, the authors discuss endogenous and exogenous drivers of population structure in microbes and how the population structure can affect evolutionary dynamics and vice versa, and a particular interesting case arises when also this exogenous structure experiences feedbacks from the microbial population.About:
This article is published in Current Opinion in Microbiology.The article was published on 2021-10-01. It has received 0 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Population & Evolutionary dynamics.read more
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