Paleozoic diversification of terrestrial chitin-degrading bacterial lineages

Background Establishing the divergence times of groups of organisms is a major goal of evolutionary biology. This is especially challenging for microbial lineages due to the near-absence of preserved physical evidence (diagnostic body fossils or geochemical biomarkers). Horizontal g...

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Main Authors: Gruen, Danielle Sarah, Wolfe, Joanna Michelle, Fournier, Gregory P.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120349
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1019-4390
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2941-2514
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1605-5455