What Is the Tree of Life?

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.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  PLoS Genetics

• Publication date

  2016-04-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005912PMID 27078870PMCID 4831686
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