What Is the Tree of Life?

PLoS Genet

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Published: April 2016

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/PMC4831686PMC
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