Prokaryotic evolution and the tree of life are two different things

Background: The concept of a tree of life is prevalent in the evolutionary literature. It stems from attempting to obtain a grand unified natural system that reflects a recurrent process of species and lineage splittings for all forms of life. Traditionally, the discipline of systematics operates in...

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Main Authors: Martin, William, Dagan, Tal, Dupre, John, Lapointe, François-Joseph, Franklin-Hall, Laura, Gogarten, J. Peter, Ereshefsky, Marc, Beiko, Robert G., O'Malley, Maureen A., Bapteste, Eric, Boucher, Yan
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: BioMed Central 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52509

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