What Is the Tree of Life?

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Doolittle, W Ford ^a   Brunet, Tyler D P ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROKARYOTE; SPECIES; TREE OF LIFE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84964850303     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005912     Document Type: Review

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