title: Realizing Microbial Evolution.
abstract: Genome sequences have become the new phenotype for microbial evolutionists. The patterns of diversity revealed in the first 100 bacterial genomes fostered development of a comprehensive framework that can explain their contents, organization, and evolution.
authors.affiliation: Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712.
authors.forename: Howard
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ochman
mesh_terms: D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D014644:Genetic Variation; D016680:Genome, Bacterial; D023281:Genomics / Q000639:trends