id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_rowcaz4d5jelvozifz5mp3acxq L. R. Franklin Bacteria, Sex, and Systematics* 2007 27 .pdf application/pdf 11843 688 52 bacterial species, arguing that phylogenetic bacterial classification requires a questionable metaphysical commitment to the existence of essential genes. can attempt to apply evolutionary species concepts to the bacterial world genes have different histories, and species cease to be monophyletic, violating assumptions of many phylogenetic analyses. that this second motivation is in tension with the application of evolutionary species concepts to bacteria. multiple classifications or require biologists to prioritize certain organismal or species characteristics as particularly important. Strictly asexual organisms cannot form the unified gene pools required by the biological species concept Another option would be to base species taxa on the exchange of genes Species would be populations of organisms that participated in informational gene exchange. because different genes and organismal parts, those which transmit hereditary characters and are thus relevant to an evolutionary systematics, (2002), "Gene Transfer in Bacteria: Speciation without Species?" Theoretical Population Biology 61: 449–460. ./cache/work_rowcaz4d5jelvozifz5mp3acxq.pdf ./txt/work_rowcaz4d5jelvozifz5mp3acxq.txt