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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

Models with unequal transition rates favor marine origins of Cyanobacteria and photosynthetic eukaryotes.

Teofil Nakov, James D Boyko, Andrew J Alverson, Jeremy M Beaulieu

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Ecosystem relocation on Snowball Earth: Polar-alpine ancestry of the extant surface biosphere?Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  5. Cyanobacteria evolution: Insight from the fossil record.Free radical biology & medicine · 2019
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  7. Reply to Nakov et al.: Model choice requires biological insight when studying the ancestral habitat of photosynthetic eukaryotes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017
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  8. Models with unequal transition rates favor marine origins of Cyanobacteria and photosynthetic eukaryotes.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Teofil NakovDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701 tnakov@uark.edu.
James D BoykoDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701.
Andrew J AlversonDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701.ORCID 0000-0003-1241-2654
Jeremy M BeaulieuDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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CyanobacteriaEukaryotaPhotosynthesis

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PMID29208725
PMCPMC5740659

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