| Description | Discussion Meeting held on 13 and 14 March 2006
Dr Matthew Fisher, Professor Brian Spratt FRS and Professor James Staley
After three billion years of evolution only 5,000 bacterial species are known compared to over a million animal species that have evolved in only 600 million years. Bacterial species have been defined without any coherent concept of species, but advances in bacterial population biology, and increasing interest in the vast diversity of microbial life, is leading to new insights into microbial speciation. |