Was the universal common ancestry proved?

Nature

Volumn 468, Issue 7326, 2010, Pages

  Yonezawa, Takahiro ^a   Hasegawa, Masami ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEORY;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; CODON; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 78650323903     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09482     Document Type: Note

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