Eradicating typological thinking in prokaryotic systematics and evolution

Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology

Volumn 74, Issue , 2009, Pages 197-204

  Doolittle, W F ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTYPOLOGY; CONFERENCE PAPER; EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; INTELLIGENCE; LIFE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NONHUMAN; PHILOSOPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; RELIGION; THINKING; ANIMAL GENETICS; ARTICLE; HUMAN; METAGENOMICS; METAPOPULATION; PHYLOGENOMICS; PREVALENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY; TREE OF LIFE; TYPOLOGICAL THINKING; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELL; REVIEW;

PROKARYOTA;

BACTERIA; EVOLUTION; METAGENOMICS; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTIC CELLS;

EID: 77957743043     PISSN: 00917451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1101/sqb.2009.74.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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