How stands the Tree of Life a century and a half after The Origin?

Biology Direct

Volumn 6, Issue , 2011, Pages

  O'Malley, Maureen A ^a   Koonin, Eugene V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ASTRONOMY; BACTERIUM; EVOLUTION; GENE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; REVIEW; STATISTICS; TIME; VERTEBRATE;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; EARTH (PLANET); GENES; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; SELECTION, GENETIC; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 79959645799     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-6-32     Document Type: Review

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