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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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4831686 | PMC |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1005912 | DOI Listing |
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