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Microbiology

the mean identity of shared genes or genome fragments between two prokaryotic genomes, with about 95 percent used as a species boundary.

In microbiology, average nucleotide identity refers to the mean identity of shared genes or genome fragments between two prokaryotic genomes, with about 95 percent used as a species boundary. This meaning comes from Konstantinidis (2005) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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Konstantinidis, K. T., & Tiedje, J. M. (2005). Genomic insights that advance the species definition for prokaryotes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(7), 2567-2572. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0409727102

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