The phylogenetic forest and the quest for the elusive tree of life

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 74, Issue , 2009, Pages 205-213

  Koonin, E V ^a   Wolf, Y I ^a   Puigbo P ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLADOGENESIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENOMICS; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; TREE OF LIFE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; EVOLUTION; FOREST OF LIFE; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ORGANIZATION; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MICROBIAL GENOME; NEARLY UNIVERSAL TREE; PHYLOGENETIC DEPTH; PLASMID; TREE INCONSISTENCY; VIROID; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; METAGENOMICS; PROKARYOTIC CELL; REVIEW;

PROKARYOTA;

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

EVOLUTION; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; METAGENOMICS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELLS;

EID: 77957728668     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2009.74.006     Document Type: Conference Paper

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