Bacterial Species and Speciation

Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Reconciliation of Approaches to Bacterial Systematics

1987 • 7,186 citations

Taxonomic Note: A Place for DNA-DNA Reassociation and 16S rRNA Sequence Analysis in the Present Species Definition in Bacteriology

1994 • 6,734 citations

Phylogeography: the history and formation of species

2000 • 4,693 citations

Multilocus sequence typing: A portable approach to the identification of clones within populations of pathogenic microorganisms

1998 • 3,708 citations

The growth of biological thought. Diversity, evolution, and inheritance

1983 • 2,456 citations

The struggle for existence

1934 • 2,430 citations

Impact of Culture-Independent Studies on the Emerging Phylogenetic View of Bacterial Diversity

1998 • 2,361 citations

The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance

1982 • 2,170 citations

Principles of Animal Taxonomy

1961 • 2,050 citations

Genomic-sequence comparison of two unrelated isolates of the human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori

1999 • 1,904 citations

How clonal are bacteria?

1993 • 1,804 citations

STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE NUMBER OF RECOMBINATION EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF A SAMPLE OF DNA SEQUENCES

1985 • 1,603 citations

Adaptive radiation in a heterogeneous environment

1998 • 1,288 citations

The Evolutionary Species Concept Reconsidered

1978 • 1,116 citations

Thermophilic Microorganisms and Life at High Temperatures

1978 • 970 citations

Molecular archaeology of the Escherichia coli genome

1998 • 937 citations

Delineation of Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Stricto, Borrelia garinii sp. nov., and Group VS461 Associated with Lyme Borreliosis

1992 • 882 citations

ECOLOGICAL SPECIES, MULTISPECIES, AND OAKS

1976 • 858 citations

The meaning of species and speciation: a genetic perspective.

1989 • 732 citations

The barrier to recombination between Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium is disrupted in mismatch-repair mutants

1989 • 728 citations

New method for generating deletions and gene replacements in Escherichia coli

1989 • 680 citations

A Natural View of Microbial Biodiversity within Hot Spring Cyanobacterial Mat Communities

1998 • 581 citations

Evolutionary Relationships Within the Ensatina Eschscholtzii Complex Confirm the Ring Species Interpretation

1992 • 481 citations

Novel techniques for analysing microbial diversity in natural and perturbed environments

1998 • 476 citations

Ecology and evolution in anoxic worlds

1996 • 465 citations

The Biological Species Concept: A Critical Evaluation

1970 • 441 citations

Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth

1988 • 423 citations

A Coalescent Estimator of the Population Recombination Rate

1997 • 416 citations

Localized sex in bacteria

1991 • 413 citations

Unfinished Synthesis: Biological Hierarchies and Modern Evolutionary Thought

1985 • 402 citations

Recombination in Escherichia coli and the definition of biological species

1991 • 402 citations

Ecology and Evolution in Anoxic Worlds

1995 • 397 citations

Estimating the recombination parameter of a finite population model without selection

2007 • 395 citations

Discovery and Classification of Ecological Diversity in the Bacterial World: The Role of DNA Sequence Data

1997 • 388 citations

The General Lineage Concept of Species, Species Criteria, and the Process of Speciation

1998 • 368 citations

How Salmonella became a pathogen

1997 • 367 citations

Molecular keys to speciation: DNA polymorphism and the control of genetic exchange in enterobacteria

1997 • 308 citations

The relative contributions of recombination and mutation to the divergence of clones of Neisseria meningitidis

1999 • 301 citations

Periodic Selection in Escherichia Coli

1951 • 301 citations

Principles of Animal Taxonomy

1961 • 292 citations

Santa Rosalia revisited: why are there so many species of bacteria?

1998 • 286 citations

Impact of Culture-Independent Studies on the Emerging Phylogenetic View of Bacterial Diversity

1998 • 274 citations

Repeated evolution of an acetate-crossfeeding polymorphism in long-term populations of Escherichia coli

1998 • 271 citations

On the Role of Species in Anagenesis

1987 • 246 citations

Phylogeography: The History and Formation of Species

2001 • 207 citations

Species realities and numbers in sexual vertebrates: Perspectives from an asexually transmitted genome

1999 • 204 citations

Barriers to Genetic Exchange between Bacterial Species: Streptococcus pneumoniae Transformation

2000 • 204 citations

Use of Nucleic-Acid Homologies in the Taxonomy of Anaerobic Bacteria

1973 • 197 citations

The synapsis event in the homologous pairing of DNAs: RecA recognizes and pairs less than one helical repeat of DNA.

1992 • 179 citations

DNA Sequence Similarity Requirements for Interspecific Recombination in Bacillus

1999 • 162 citations

Expanding the Known Diversity and Environmental Distribution of an Uncultured Phylogenetic Division of Bacteria

2000 • 144 citations

The log-linear relationship between sexual isolation and sequence divergence in Bacillus transformation is robust.

1995 • 144 citations

RECOMBINATION AND MIGRATION RATES IN NATURAL POPULATIONS OFBACILLUS SUBTILISANDBACILLUS MOJAVENSIS

1995 • 142 citations

On Relationships Among Various Types of Population Models

1973 • 137 citations

The effect of DNA sequence divergence on sexual isolation in Bacillus.

1993 • 134 citations

Numerical Taxonomy of Streptococcus

1983 • 134 citations

Highly Ordered Vertical Structure of Synechococcus Populations within the One-Millimeter-Thick Photic Zone of a Hot Spring Cyanobacterial Mat

2000 • 133 citations

Five kingdoms: an illustrated guide to the phyla of life on Earth

1998 • 129 citations

Gene transfer is a major factor in bacterial evolution

1996 • 128 citations

Population Genetics of Bacterial Pathogenesis

1990 • 128 citations

Genetic exchange and evolutionary divergence in prokaryotes

1994 • 126 citations

Detecting selective sweeps in naturally occurring Escherichia coli.

1994 • 125 citations

Restriction and modification in B. subtilis

1974 • 125 citations

Adapt Globally, Act Locally: The Effect of Selective Sweeps on Bacterial Sequence Diversity

1999 • 113 citations

The Effect of Mismatch Repair and Heteroduplex Formation on Sexual Isolation in Bacillus

1998 • 106 citations

The population genetics of bacteria

1991 • 106 citations

THE THERMOPHILIC MICROÖRGANISMS

1947 • 105 citations

The Effects of Rare but Promiscuous Genetic Exchange on Evolutionary Divergence in Prokaryotes

1994 • 98 citations

Towards A Practical Species Concept for Cultivable Bacteria

1997 • 83 citations

Transduction, restriction and recombination patterns in Escherichia coli.

1995 • 78 citations

Protein-coding genes as molecular markers for ecologically distinct populations: the case of two Bacillus species.

2000 • 78 citations

THE POTENTIAL FOR GENETIC EXCHANGE BY TRANSFORMATION WITHIN A NATURAL POPULATION OFBACILLUS SUBTILIS

1991 • 71 citations

A numerical phenotypic taxonomic study of the genus Neisseria

1994 • 65 citations

Increasing DNA Transfer Efficiency by Temporary Inactivation of Host Restriction

1999 • 47 citations

The role of genetic exchange in bacterial evolution

1996 • 47 citations

Analysis of the Genetic Polymorphism of Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato by Multilocus Enzyme Electrophoresis

1996 • 46 citations

Molecular Evolution of the Escherichia coli Chromosome. V. Recombination Patterns Among Strains of Diverse Origin

1999 • 46 citations

The size and continuity of DNA segments integrated in Bacillus transformation.

1995 • 43 citations

Recombination and Migration Rates in Natural Populations of Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus mojavensis

1995 • 41 citations

Restriction and Modification

2001 • 38 citations

DOES RECOMBINATION CONSTRAIN NEUTRAL DIVERGENCE AMONG BACTERIAL TAXA?

1995 • 35 citations

GENETIC EXCHANGE BETWEEN BACILLUS SUBTILIS AND BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS : VARIABLE HYBRID STABILITY AND THE NATURE OF BACTERIAL SPECIES

1989 • 35 citations

The Potential for Genetic Exchange by Transformation within a Natural Population of Bacillus subtilis

1991 • 31 citations

A Numerical Taxonomic Study of Actinobacillus, Pasterella and Yersinia

1985 • 30 citations

The maintenance of large numbers of strains of microorganisms, and the implications for culture collections

1977 • 28 citations

Numerical Taxonomy of Haemophilus

1981 • 28 citations

How specific is the first recognition step of homologous recombination?

1995 • 26 citations

The Population Genetics of Bacteria

1989 • 15 citations

Does Recombination Constrain Neutral Divergence Among Bacterial Taxa?

1995 • 14 citations

Integration of heterologous DNA into the genome of Paracoccus denitrificans is mediated by a family of IS1248-related elements and a second type of integrative recombination event

1995 • 13 citations

Genetic structure of bacterial populations

1999 • 5 citations

The maintenance of large numbers of strains of microorganisms, and the implications for culture collections

1977 • 3 citations