Save the tree of life or get lost in the woods

Biology Direct

Volumn 5, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Valas, Ruben E ^a   Bourne, Philip E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROKARYOTA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENOME; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, BACTERIAL;

EID: 77954075974     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-5-44     Document Type: Article

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