Search for a 'Tree of Life' in the thicket of the phylogenetic forest

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Comparative genomics has revealed extensive horizontal gene transfer among prokaryotes, a development that is often considered to undermine the 'tree of life' concept. However, the possibility remains that a statistical cen...

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Main Authors: Puigbò Pere, Wolf Yuri I, Koonin Eugene V
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-07-01
Series:Journal of Biology
Online Access:http://jbiol.com/content/8/6/59