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Title
Search for a 'Tree of Life' in the thicket of the phylogenetic forest.
Authors
Puigbò, Pere; Wolf, Yuri I; Koonin, Eugene V
Abstract
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 central trend still exists in the phylogenetic 'forest of life'.