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Microbial Population Genetics

Microbial Population Genetics is a subdiscipline of population genetics that focuses on the genetic composition, variation, and evolutionary dynamics within microbial populations, emphasizing the analysis of allele frequencies, selection pressures, gene flow, and genetic drift in unicellular organisms such as bacteria, archaea, and microscopic eukaryotes.

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Profiling of complex microbial populations by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis analysis of polymerase chain reaction-amplified genes coding for 16S rRNA

Gerard Muyzer, Ellen C. de Waal, André G. Uitterlinden · Applied and Environmental Microbiology · 1993 · 11.5K citations · Full text

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Open-access bacterial population genomics: BIGSdb software, the PubMLST.org website and their applications

Keith A. Jolley, James E. Bray, Martin Maiden · Wellcome Open Research · 2018 · 3.5K citations · Full text

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<i>Poppr</i> : an R package for genetic analysis of populations with clonal, partially clonal, and/or sexual reproduction

Zhian N. Kamvar, Javier F. Tabima, Niklaus J. Grünwald · PeerJ · 2014 · 3.2K citations · Full text

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Bacterial Persistence as a Phenotypic Switch

Nathalie Q. Balaban, Jack Merrin, Remy Chait et al. · Science · 2004 · 3K citations

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How clonal are bacteria?

John Maynard Smith, N. H. Smith, Mark Allen O’Rourke et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1993 · 1.8K citations

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    Richard E. Lenski

    Michigan State University, United States

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    Bruce R. Levin

    Emory University, United States

    12 publications · 1.9K citations

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    R K Selander

    Pennsylvania State University, United States

    11 publications · 2.2K citations

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    Brian G. Spratt

    Imperial College London, United Kingdom

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    Thomas S. Whittam

    Michigan State University, United States

    8 publications · 837 citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

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  2. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

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    51 publications

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  3. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    21 h-index

    57 publications

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  4. Michigan State University

    East Lansing, United States

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    57 publications

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  5. Imperial College London

    London, United Kingdom

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    37 publications

    4.6K citations

  6. University of Arizona

    Tucson, United States

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    41 publications

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  7. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

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    42 publications

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    Paris, France

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    AEM · 46 publications · 17.6K citations

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    PNAS · 41 publications · 9K citations

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  3. Genetics

    35 publications · 3.9K citations

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    MBE · 23 publications · 2.3K citations

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