Origins of life: Common ancestry put to the test

Nature

Volumn 465, Issue 7295, 2010, Pages 168-169

  Steel, Mike ^a   Penny, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; DNA;

COMMON ANCESTRY; EARLY EARTH; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; ORIGIN OF LIFE; PHYLOGENETICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ASTRONOMY; BACTERIUM; BIOGENESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; EVOLUTION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC LINE; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENCE; SHORT SURVEY; TREE OF LIFE;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BAYES THEOREM; BIOGENESIS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77952418541     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/465168a     Document Type: Short Survey

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