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TY - JOUR AU - Doolittle, W. Ford AU - Papke, R. Thane PY - 2006 DA - 2006/09/29 TI - Genomics and the bacterial species problem JO - Genome Biology SP - 116 VL - 7 IS - 9 AB - Whether or not bacteria have species is a perennially vexatious question. Given what we now know about variation among bacterial genomes, we argue that there is no intrinsic reason why the processes driving diversification and adaptation must produce groups of individuals sufficiently coherent in their genetic and phenotypic properties to merit the designation 'species' - although sometimes they might. SN - 1474-760X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2006-7-9-116 DO - 10.1186/gb-2006-7-9-116 ID - Doolittle2006 ER -