Mapping the Tree of Life: Progress and Prospects
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Summary
A critical assessment of the current understanding of life's phylogenetic diversity is provided, which indicates that the three-domain structure of the ToL is established, but the deep phylogenetic structure of each of the domains remains murky and sometimes controversial.
- Type
- review
- Published
- 2009-12-01
- Cited by
- 265
- References
- 83
- Access
- Open access
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- https://openalex.org/W2139469924
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- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:9082981
Keywords
Biology, Tree of life (biology), Tree (set theory), Evolutionary biology, Computational biology
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