Abstract

What is a species? What is speciation? These questions are not easy to answer. Yet, for those microbiologists studying environmental questions or dealing with clinical issues, the ability to name and recognize species, widely considered the fundamental units of ecology, can be useful as well as being fundamentally valuable. The speciation problem, the focus here, is more mechanistic and conceptual. What is the origin of species, and what evolutionary and ecological forces keep them separate once they begin to diverge?

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