Many groups of closely related species have reticulate phylogenies. Recent genomic
analyses are showing this in many insects and vertebrates, as well as in microbes and …

Single cell genomics (SCG) uncovers hereditary information at the most basic level of
biological organization. It is emerging as a powerful complement to cultivation-based and …

In this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award,“our
greatest living chronicler of the natural world”(The New York Times), David Quammen …

Microbes and microbiology are seldom encountered in philosophical accounts of the life
sciences. Although microbiology is a well-established science and microbes the basis of life …

The nature of species is controversial in biology and philosophy. Biologists disagree on the
definition of the term 'species,'and philosophers disagree over the ontological status of …

Much of what we know about speciation comes from detailed studies of well‐known model
systems. Although there have been several important syntheses on speciation, few (if any) …

Standard microbial evolutionary ontology is organized according to a nested hierarchy of
entities at various levels of biological organization. It typically detects and defines these …

This paper examines the species problem in microbiology and its implications for the
species problem more generally. Given the different meanings of 'species' in microbiology …

Biological science uses multiple species concepts. Order can be brought to this diversity if
we recognize two key features. First, any given species concept is likely to have a patchwork …

How genomic diversity within bacterial populations originates and is maintained in the
presence of frequent recombination is a central problem in understanding bacterial …