The tree of one percent
Open Access
- 1 January 2006
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Genome Biology
- Vol. 7 (10) , 118
- https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2006-7-10-118
Abstract
As lateral gene transfer among prokaryotes and endosymbiotic gene transfer (from organelles) among eukaryotes are fundamentally not tree-like in nature, biologists need to depart from the notion that all genomes are related by a single bifurcating tree.Keywords
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