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Research Article | Ecological and Evolutionary Science

Consistent Metagenome-Derived Metrics Verify and Delineate Bacterial Species Boundaries

Matthew R. Olm, Alexander Crits-Christoph, Spencer Diamond, Adi Lavy, Paula B. Matheus Carnevali, Jillian F. Banfield
Tanja Woyke, Editor
Matthew R. Olm
aDepartment of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
bDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
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Alexander Crits-Christoph
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Paula B. Matheus Carnevali
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Jillian F. Banfield
aDepartment of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
cDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
dEarth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
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DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.00731-19
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00731-19
PubMed 
31937678

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History 
  • Received October 29, 2019
  • Accepted December 19, 2019
  • Published online January 14, 2020.

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Copyright © 2020 Olm et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.
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  1. Matthew R. Olma,b,
  2. Alexander Crits-Christophb,
  3. Spencer Diamonda,
  4. Adi Lavya,
  5. Paula B. Matheus Carnevalia and
  6. Jillian F. Banfielda,c,d,e
  1. aDepartment of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
  2. bDepartment of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
  3. cDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
  4. dEarth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA
  5. eChan Zuckerberg Biohub, San Francisco, California, USA
  • Address correspondence to Jillian F. Banfield, jbanfield{at}berkeley.edu.
  • Citation Olm MR, Crits-Christoph A, Diamond S, Lavy A, Matheus Carnevali PB, Banfield JF. 2020. Consistent metagenome-derived metrics verify and delineate bacterial species boundaries. mSystems 5:e00731-19. https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00731-19.

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Matthew R. Olm, Alexander Crits-Christoph, Spencer Diamond, Adi Lavy, Paula B. Matheus Carnevali, Jillian F. Banfield
mSystems Jan 2020, 5 (1) e00731-19; DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.00731-19
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