A congruent phylogenomic signal places eukaryotes within the Archaea

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1749, 2012, Pages 4870-4879

  Williams, Tom A ^a   Foster, Peter G ^b   Nye, Tom M W ^c   Cox, Cymon J ^d   Martin Embley, T ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Eukaryotes; Evolution; Phylogenetics; Tree of life

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; COMMON ANCESTRY; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENOMICS; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

EID: 84869133972     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1795     Document Type: Article

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