Toward Automatic Reconstruction of a Highly Resolved Tree of Life

D. Ciccarelli, Francesca; Doerks, Tobias; von Mering, Christian; J. Creevey, Christopher; Snel, ‎Berend; Bork, Peer

doi:10.1126/science.1123061

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Toward Automatic Reconstruction of a Highly Resolved Tree of Life

Published in Science • Mar 2, 2006

Authors:

Francesca D. Ciccarelli

Tobias Doerks

Christian von Mering

Abstract

We have developed an automatable procedure for reconstructing the tree of life with branch lengths comparable across all three domains. The tree has its basis in a concatenation of 31 orthologs occurring in 191 species with sequenced genomes. It revealed interdomain discrepancies in taxonomic classi...

Subject

Acidobacteria

Concatenation (mathematics)

Phylogenetic tree

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