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PMID: 17081279 Published · ppublish English Journal Article

The tree of one percent.

Genome biology ·Vol. 7 ·No. 10 ·2006-00-00 ·Pages 118

Dagan T, Martin W

Abstract

Two significant evolutionary processes are fundamentally not tree-like in nature--lateral gene transfer among prokaryotes and endosymbiotic gene transfer (from organelles) among eukaryotes. To incorporate such processes into the bigger picture of early evolution, biologists need to depart from the preconceived notion that all genomes are related by a single bifurcating tree.

MeSH Terms
Animals Archaea/genetics Bacteria/genetics Decision Trees Evolution, Molecular Genes, Bacterial Genes, Fungal Genes, Protozoan Models, Genetic Symbiosis
Authors & Affiliations
2 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID
Dagan Tal
Institute of Botany, University of Düsseldorf, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany. tal.dagan@uni-duesseldorf.de
Martin William
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Article Info
Journal
Genome biology
Abbr.
Genome Biol
ISSN
1474-760X
DOI
10.1186/gb-2006-7-10-118
Email
tal.dagan@uni-duesseldorf.de
Published
2006-00-00
Epub
2006-00-01
Pages
118
Language
English
Region
England
NLM ID
100960660
PMCID
PMC1794558
Subset
IM
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