The two-domain tree of life is linked to a new root for the Archaea

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 6670-6675

  Raymann, Kasie ^a   Brochier Armanet, Céline ^b   Gribaldo, Simonetta ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Ancient evolution; Archaeal phylogeny; Methanogenesis; Site heterogeneous model; Tree of life

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; NONHUMAN; PHYLUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREE OF LIFE; ARCHAEAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; EURYARCHAEOTA; EVOLUTION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ARCHAEA; EUKARYOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA;

GENETIC MARKER;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DATABASES, GENETIC; EUKARYOTA; EURYARCHAEOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84930226613     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1420858112     Document Type: Article

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