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.

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review
Published
2009-12-01
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Keywords

Biology, Tree of life (biology), Tree (set theory), Evolutionary biology, Computational biology

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