Early evolution without a tree of life by Martin William F

“…Three major transitions in early evolution are considered without recourse to a tree of life. The origin of prokaryotes required a steady supply of energy and electrons, probably in the form of molecular hydrogen stemming from serpentinization. …”
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The significance of few versus many in the tree of life by Scotland, R, Sanderson, M

The significance of few versus many in the tree of life. by Scotland, R, Sanderson, M

Recent progress in paleontological methods for dating the Tree of Life by Michel eLaurin

“…Dating the Tree of Life (abbreviated TOL below) has become a major goal of biological research. …”
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From the scala naturae to the symbiogenetic and dynamic tree of life by Kutschera Ulrich

“…Charles Darwin is usually credited with the establishment of a branched evolutionary "Tree of Life". This insight of 1859 was based on his now firmly corroborated proposals of common ancestry and natural selection. …”
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Tandem-repeat protein domains across the tree of life by Kristin K. Jernigan, Seth R. Bordenstein

“…In this study, we assess for the first time the abundance of armadillo (ARM) and tetratricopeptide (TPR) repeat domains across all three domains in the tree of life and compare the results to our previous analysis on ankyrin (ANK) repeat domains in this journal. …”
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Embracing heterogeneity: coalescing the Tree of Life and the future of phylogenomics by Gustavo A. Bravo, Alexandre Antonelli, Christine D. Bacon, Krzysztof Bartoszek, Mozes P. K. Blom, Stella Huynh, Graham Jones, L. Lacey Knowles, Sangeet Lamichhaney, Thomas Marcussen, Hélène Morlon, Luay K. Nakhleh, Bengt Oxelman, Bernard Pfeil, Alexander Schliep, Niklas Wahlberg, Fernanda P. Werneck, John Wiedenhoeft, Sandi Willows-Munro, Scott V. Edwards

“…Building the Tree of Life (ToL) is a major challenge of modern biology, requiring advances in cyberinfrastructure, data collection, theory, and more. …”
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­Comparative spigot ontogeny across the spider tree of life by Rachael E. Alfaro, Charles E. Griswold, Kelly B. Miller

“…This is the first study of its kind and the first to incorporate the Araneae Tree of Life. After rigorous testing for phylogenetic signal and model fit, we performed 60 phylogenetic generalized least squares analyses on adult female and second instar spigot morphology. …”
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Integrative Phylogenetics: Tools for Palaeontologists to Explore the Tree of Life by Raquel López-Antoñanzas, Jonathan Mitchell, Tiago R. Simões, Fabien L. Condamine, Robin Aguilée, Pablo Peláez-Campomanes, Sabrina Renaud, Jonathan Rolland, Philip C. J. Donoghue

“…The modern era of analytical and quantitative palaeobiology has only just begun, integrating methods such as morphological and molecular phylogenetics and divergence time estimation, as well as phenotypic and molecular rates of evolution. Calibrating the tree of life to geological time is at the nexus of many disparate disciplines, from palaeontology to molecular systematics and from geochronology to comparative genomics. …”
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Anchored phylogenomics illuminates the skipper butterfly tree of life by Emmanuel F. A. Toussaint, Jesse W. Breinholt, Chandra Earl, Andrew D. Warren, Andrew V. Z. Brower, Masaya Yago, Kelly M. Dexter, Marianne Espeland, Naomi E. Pierce, David J. Lohman, Akito Y. Kawahara

“…The newly inferred phylogenetic tree resolves long-standing systematic issues and changes our understanding of the skipper tree of life. These resultsenhance understanding of the evolution of one of the most species-rich butterfly families.…”
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Global conservation status of the jawed vertebrate Tree of Life by Rikki Gumbs, Oenone Scott, Ryan Bates, Monika Böhm, Félix Forest, Claudia L. Gray, Michael Hoffmann, Daniel Kane, Christopher Low, William D. Pearse, Sebastian Pipins, Benjamin Tapley, Samuel T. Turvey, Walter Jetz, Nisha R. Owen, James Rosindell

“…Abstract Human-driven extinction threatens entire lineages across the Tree of Life. Here we assess the conservation status of jawed vertebrate evolutionary history, using three policy-relevant approaches. …”
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A phylogenomic resolution of the sea urchin tree of life by Nicolás Mongiardino Koch, Simon E. Coppard, Harilaos A. Lessios, Derek E. G. Briggs, Rich Mooi, Greg W. Rouse

“…Although much effort has been devoted to elucidating the echinoid tree of life using a variety of morphological data, molecular attempts have relied on only a handful of genes. …”
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Towards a balanced view of the bacterial tree of life by Frederik Schulz, Emiley A. Eloe-Fadrosh, Robert M. Bowers, Jessica Jarett, Torben Nielsen, Natalia N. Ivanova, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Tanja Woyke

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DNA damage repair proteins across the Tree of Life by Emily Nischwitz, Vivien A.C. Schoonenberg, Albert Fradera-Sola, Mario Dejung, Olga Vydzhak, Michal Levin, Brian Luke, Falk Butter, Marion Scheibe

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Search for a 'Tree of Life' in the thicket of the phylogenetic forest by Puigbò Pere, Wolf Yuri I, Koonin Eugene V

“…<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>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 'forest of life'.…”
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The Tree of Life and other tragedies: a brief response by Marcel F D'Eon

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Mammal extinctions and the increasing isolation of humans on the tree of life by Sandrine Pavoine, Michael B. Bonsall, T. Jonathan Davies, Shelly Masi

“…Pruning threatened primates, including apes (Hominidae, Hylobatidae), from the tree of life will lead to our species being among those with the fewest close relatives. …”
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Prokaryotic evolution and the tree of life are two different things by 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

“…Background: The concept of a tree of life is prevalent in the evolutionary literature. …”
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Mammal extinctions and the increasing isolation of humans on the tree of life by Pavoine, S, Bonsall, M, Davies, J, Masi, S

“…Pruning threatened primates, including apes (Hominidae, Hylobatidae), from the tree of life will lead to our species being among those with the fewest close relatives. …”

Erosion of global functional diversity across the tree of life by Carmona, CP, Tamme, R, Pärtel, M, de Bello, F, Brosse, S, Capdevila, P, González, R, González-Suárez, M, Salguero-Gómez, R, Vásquez-Valderrama, M, Toussaint, A