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ArticleNature2018

Hemimastigophora is a novel supra-kingdom-level lineage of eukaryotes.

Gordon Lax, Yana Eglit, Laura Eme, Erin M Bertrand, Andrew J Roger, Alastair G B Simpson

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Article in Nature, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

61 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Gordon LaxDepartment of Biology, Centre for Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Yana EglitDepartment of Biology, Centre for Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Laura EmeCentre for Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Erin M BertrandDepartment of Biology, Centre for Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Andrew J RogerCentre for Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Alastair G B SimpsonDepartment of Biology, Centre for Comparative Genomics and Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. alastair.simpson@dal.ca.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Almost all eukaryote life forms have now been placed within one of five to eight supra-kingdom-level groups using molecular phylogenetics

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PhylogenyCell Culture TechniquesCell SizeDNA, RibosomalEukaryotaFlagellaGenes, rRNASingle-Cell AnalysisTranscriptomeDNA, Ribosomal

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