A new view of the tree of life

Nature Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Hug, Laura A ^a,j   Baker, Brett J ^b   Anantharaman, Karthik ^a   Brown, Christopher T ^c   Probst, Alexander J ^a   Castelle, Cindy J ^a   Butterfield, Cristina N ^a   Hernsdorf, Alex W ^c   Amano, Yuki ^d   Ise, Kotaro ^d   Suzuki, Yohey ^e   Dudek, Natasha ^f   Relman, David A ^g,h   Finstad, Kari M ⁱ   Amundson, Ronald ⁱ   Thomas, Brian C ^a   Banfield, Jillian F ^a,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEON; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; EUKARYOTE; EVOLUTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREE OF LIFE; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION;

ARCHAEA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84966929319     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20585276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.48     Document Type: Article

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