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Search for a 'Tree of Life' in the thicket of the phylogenetic forest

BACKGROUND: Comparative genomics has revealed extensive horizontal gene transfer among prokaryotes, a development that is often considered to undermine the 'tree of life' concept. However, the possibility remains that a statistical central trend still exists in the phylogenetic 'fores...

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Autores principales: Puigbò, Pere, Wolf, Yuri I, Koonin, Eugene V
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2737373/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19594957
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/jbiol159