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标题：Speciation without Species: A Final Word
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作者：W. Ford Doolittle
期刊名称：Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology
电子版ISSN：2475-3025
出版年度：2019
卷号：11
期号：20200929
页码：1-16
DOI：10.3998/ptpbio.16039257.0011.014
出版社：Michigan Publishing
摘要：Here I present the several models currently popular for understanding speciation in prokaryotes, in particular bacteria. I will argue that “speciation”, as a process or collection of independent but interacting processes sometimes serving to form genotypic and/or phenotypic clusters, can be studied effectively without any definition of “species” or any requirement that all prokaryotic lineages match such a definition. This has always been so, but formal acknowledgement would have a freeing effect.
关键词：speciation ; bacterial species ; ecotype ; Biological Species Concept ; gene transfer