Most Comprehensive Tree of Prokaryotic Life (IMAGE)

SMBE Journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution)

Most Comprehensive Tree of Prokaryotic Life

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Researchers at Temple and Oakland universities have completed a new tree of prokaryotic life calibrated to time, assembled from 11,784 species of bacteria. The new tree explores grand patterns of evolutionary change that, surprisingly, has revealed remarkable similarities with that of eukaryotes, including animals, plants, and fungi.

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