The universal ancestor

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 95, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 6854-6859

  Woese, Carl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Communal ancestor; Evolutionary temperature; Genetic annealing; Lateral gene transfer; Progenote

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC MODEL; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GENES; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 0032499698     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.12.6854     Document Type: Article

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