ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2010
Deep phylogeny--how a tree can help characterize early life on Earth.
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- Insights into the low-temperature adaptation of an enzyme as studied through ancestral sequence reconstruction.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2025Article
- Comparative analysis of reconstructed ancestral proteins with their extant counterparts suggests primitive life had an alkaline habitat.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Spark of Life: Role of Electrotrophy in the Emergence of Life.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Exploring genome gene content and morphological analysis to test recalcitrant nodes in the animal phylogeny.PloS one · 2023Article
- ThermoBase: A database of the phylogeny and physiology of thermophilic and hyperthermophilic organisms.PloS one · 2022Article
- Phylogenetic Signal, Congruence, and Uncertainty across Bacteria and Archaea.Molecular biology and evolution · 2021Article
- The Mutational Robustness of the Genetic Code and Codon Usage in Environmental Context: A Non-Extremophilic Preference?Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Phylogenetic analysis of mutational robustness based on codon usage supports that the standard genetic code does not prefer extreme environments.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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- Ancestral sequence reconstruction produces thermally stable enzymes with mesophilic enzyme-like catalytic properties.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Extremophiles: a special or general case in the search for extra-terrestrial life?Extremophiles : life under extreme conditions · 2020Article
- The Dallol Geothermal Area, Northern Afar (Ethiopia)-An Exceptional Planetary Field Analog on Earth.Astrobiology · 2019Article
- Insights Into the Microbiology of the Chaotropic Brines of Salar de Atacama, Chile.Frontiers in microbiology · 2019Article
- AYbRAH: a curated ortholog database for yeasts and fungi spanning 600 million years of evolution.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2019Article
- Characterization of Reconstructed Ancestral Proteins Suggests a Change in Temperature of the Ancient Biosphere.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2017Review
- Metazoan evolution of the armadillo repeat superfamily.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2017Article
- The Astrobiology Primer v2.0.Astrobiology · 2016Review
- Phylogenetic and biological significance of evolutionary elements from metazoan mitochondrial genomes.PloS one · 2014Article
- Experimental evidence for the thermophilicity of ancestral life.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2013Article
- The Ras protein superfamily: evolutionary tree and role of conserved amino acids.The Journal of cell biology · 2012Review
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Abstract
The Darwinian concept of biological evolution assumes that life on Earth shares a common ancestor. The diversification of this common ancestor through speciation events and vertical transmission of genetic material implies that the classification of life can be illustrated in a tree-like manner, commonly referred to as the Tree of Life. This article describes features of the Tree of Life, such as how the tree has been both pruned and become bushier throughout the past century as our knowledge of biology has expanded. We present current views that the classification of life may be best illustrated as a ring or even a coral with tree-like characteristics. This article also discusses how the organization of the Tree of Life offers clues about ancient life on Earth. In particular, we focus on the environmental conditions and temperature history of Precambrian life and show how chemical, biological, and geological data can converge to better understand this history."You know, a tree is a tree. How many more do you need to look at?"--Ronald Reagan (Governor of California), quoted in the Sacramento Bee, opposing expansion of Redwood National Park, March 3, 1966.
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