| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. Research Articles Introduction: species and speciation in micro-organisms Brian G Spratt, James T Staley, and Matthew C Fisher PMCID: PMC1764931 The bacterial species dilemma and the genomic–phylogenetic species concept James T Staley PMCID: PMC1857736 Stepping stones towards a new prokaryotic taxonomy Dirk Gevers, Peter Dawyndt, Peter Vandamme, Anne Willems, Marc Vancanneyt, Jean Swings, and Paul De Vos PMCID: PMC1764938 Sequences, sequence clusters and bacterial species William P Hanage, Christophe Fraser, and Brian G Spratt PMCID: PMC1764932 The bacterial species definition in the genomic era Konstantinos T Konstantinidis, Alban Ramette, and James M Tiedje PMCID: PMC1764935 The spatial scale of genetic differentiation in a model organism: the wild yeast Saccharomyces paradoxus Vassiliki Koufopanou, Joseph Hughes, Graham Bell, and Austin Burt PMCID: PMC1764930 Eukaryotic microbes, species recognition and the geographic limits of species: examples from the kingdom Fungi John W Taylor, Elizabeth Turner, Jeffrey P Townsend, Jeremy R Dettman, and David Jacobson PMCID: PMC1764934 The diversity of microbes: resurgence of the phenotype Tom Fenchel and Bland J Finlay PMCID: PMC1764925 Allopatric origins of microbial species Rachel J Whitaker PMCID: PMC1764937 Towards a conceptual and operational union of bacterial systematics, ecology, and evolution Frederick M Cohan PMCID: PMC1764936 Cyanobacterial ecotypes in the microbial mat community of Mushroom Spring (Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming) as species-like units linking microbial community composition, structure and function David M Ward, Mary M Bateson, Michael J Ferris, Michael Kühl, Andrea Wieland, Alex Koeppel, and Frederick M Cohan PMCID: PMC1764927 Patterns and mechanisms of genetic and phenotypic differentiation in marine microbes Martin F Polz, Dana E Hunt, Sarah P Preheim, and Daniel M Weinreich PMCID: PMC1764928 What is the extent of prokaryotic diversity? Thomas P Curtis, Ian M Head, Mary Lunn, Stephen Woodcock, Patrick D Schloss, and William T Sloan PMCID: PMC1764926 Modelling bacterial speciation William P Hanage, Brian G Spratt, Katherine M.E Turner, and Christophe Fraser PMCID: PMC1764933 Mismatch induced speciation in Salmonella: model and data Daniel Falush, Mia Torpdahl, Xavier Didelot, Donald F Conrad, Daniel J Wilson, and Mark Achtman PMCID: PMC1764929 |
