A term used in molecular microbial ecology to group a set of closely related organisms. This is often defined as high sequence similarity, often of their 16S rRNA gene.
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A term used in molecular microbial ecology to group a set of closely related organisms. This is often defined as high sequence similarity, often of their 16S rRNA gene.
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