The prokaryotic tree of life: past, present...and future?

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 276-281

  McInerney, James O ^a   Cotton, James A ^b   Pisani, Davide ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME RNA;

EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER; GENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTE; TAXONOMY;

BIOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELL; REVIEW;

BIOLOGY; GENOMICS; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELLS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

PROKARYOTA;

EID: 43049090907     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2008.01.008     Document Type: Review

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