Genome size distributions in bacteria and archaea are strongly linked to evolutionary history at broad phylogenetic scales

• Carolina A. Martinez-Gutierrez ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cmartinez@vt.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8365-6050

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• Frank O. Aylward

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Center for Emerging, Zoonotic, and Arthropod-borne Pathogens, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1279-4050

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