ReviewPLoS genetics2016
What Is the Tree of Life?
Review in PLoS genetics, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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16 citing papers in PubMed.
- Stem Life: A Framework for Understanding the Prebiotic-Biotic Transition.Journal of molecular evolution · 2024Article
- Early Divergence and Gene Exchange Highways in the Evolutionary History of Mesoaciditogales.Genome biology and evolution · 2023Article
- Reconstruction of the last bacterial common ancestor from 183 pangenomes reveals a versatile ancient core genome.Genome biology · 2023Article
- Old genes in new places: A taxon-rich analysis of interdomain lateral gene transfer events.PLoS genetics · 2022Article
- A Thermodynamic Atlas of Proteomes Reveals Energetic Innovation across the Tree of Life.Molecular biology and evolution · 2022Article
- Should Networks Supplant Tree Building?Microorganisms · 2020Review
- A New Analysis of Archaea-Bacteria Domain Separation: Variable Phylogenetic Distance and the Tempo of Early Evolution.Molecular biology and evolution · 2020Article
- A Place for Viruses on the Tree of Life.Frontiers in microbiology · 2020Review
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- How microbes "jeopardize" the modern synthesis.PLoS genetics · 2019Article
- Reconstruction of real and simulated phylogenies based on quartet plurality inference.BMC genomics · 2018Article
- No wisdom in the crowd: genome annotation in the era of big data - current status and future prospects.Microbial biotechnology · 2018Review
- Phylogenetic signal from rearrangements in 18 Anopheles species by joint scaffolding extant and ancestral genomes.BMC genomics · 2018Article
- Functional horizontal gene transfer from bacteria to eukaryotes.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2018Review
- A program to compute the soft Robinson-Foulds distance between phylogenetic networks.BMC genomics · 2017Article
- Unknown unknowns: essential genes in quest for function.Microbial biotechnology · 2016Review
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Abstract
A universal Tree of Life (TOL) has long been a goal of molecular phylogeneticists, but reticulation at the level of genes and possibly at the levels of cells and species renders any simple interpretation of such a TOL, especially as applied to prokaryotes, problematic.
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