About the last common ancestor, the universal life‐tree and lateral gene transfer: a reappraisal
Open Access
- 1 October 2000
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Molecular Microbiology
- Vol. 38 (2) , 177-185
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.02126.x
Abstract
An organismal tree rooted in the bacterial branch and derived from a hyperthermophilic last common ancestor (LCA) is still widely assumed to represent the path followed by evolution from the most pri...Keywords
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